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Book SynopsisFeaturing the work of the six great Romantic Poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats - this concise collection illustrates the new way of thinking voiced by the Romantic poets in an age of rebellion and revolution.
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface vii
Introduction 1
Duncan Wu
Part I: William Blake (1757-1827):
1. Songs of Innocence
Introduction 8
The Shepherd 8
The Echoing Green 9
The Lamb 9
The Little Black Boy 10
The Blossom 11
The Chimney Sweeper 11
The Little Boy Lost 12
The Little Boy Found 12
Laughing Song 12
A Cradle Song 13
The Divine Image 14
Holy Thursday 14
Night 15
Spring 16
Nurse's Song 17
Infant Joy 17
A Dream 17
On Another's Sorrow 18
2. Songs of Experience:
Introduction 19
Earth's Answer 20
The Clod and the Pebble 20
Holy Thursday 21
The Little Girl Lost 21
The Little Girl Found 23
The Chimney Sweeper 24
Nurse's Song 24
The Sick Rose 25
The Fly 25
The Angel 26
The Tyger 26
My Pretty Rose-Tree 27
Ah, Sunflower! 27
The Lily 27
The Garden of Love 27
The Little Vagabond 28
London 28
The Human Abstract 29
Infant Sorrow 29
A Poison Tree 30
A Little Boy Lost 30
A Little Girl Lost 31
To Tirzah 32
The Schoolboy 32
The Voice of the Ancient Bard 33
A Divine Image 33
Part II: William Wordsworth (1770-1850):
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey 34
The Two-Part Prelude (Part I only) 37
Strange fits of passion I have known 47
Song (‘She dwelt among the 'untrodden ways') 48
A slumber did my spirit seal 48
Three years she grew in sun and shower 49
I travelled among unknown men 50
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 50
Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 51
Daffodils 55
Stepping Westward 56
The Solitary Reaper 57
The River Duddon: Conclusion 58
Part III: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834):
Of the Fragment of ‘Kubla Khan' 59
Kubla Khan 60
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In seven parts 61
Frost at Midnight
Christabel (Part I and conclusion only) 81
Part IV: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824):
From Don Juan: Canto II (extracts) 90
Part V: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822):
To Wordsworth 136
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 136
Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni 138
Ozymandias 142
The Mask of Anarchy. Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester 142
Ode to the West Wind 152
England in 1819 154
Sonnet (‘Lift not the painted veil') 154
To a Skylark 155
Part VI: John Keats (1795-1821):
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 158
Addressed to Haydon 158
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 159
Sonnet (‘When I have fears that I may cease to be') 159
The Eve of St Agnes 159
La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad 169
Ode to Psyche 171
Ode to a Nightingale 172
Ode on a Grecian Urn 174
Ode on Melancholy 176
Ode on Indolence 176
To Autumn 178
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art 179
Index of titles and first lines 180
