{"product_id":"the-portable-romantic-poets-9780140150520","title":"The Portable Romantic Poets","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness and ardor of their vision, including William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Edgar Allan Poe. What emerges is a panoramic view of a generation of artists struggling to remake the world in their own image—and miraculously succeeding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Portable Romantic PoetsIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Principles\u003cbr\u003eA Calendar of British and American Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Blake (1757-1827)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSong: Memory hither come\u003cbr\u003eMad Song\u003cbr\u003eSong: How sweet I roam'd from field to field\u003cbr\u003eTo Spring\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eSongs of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Piping down the valleys wild\u003cbr\u003eThe Little Black Boy\u003cbr\u003eThe Divine Image\u003cbr\u003eOn Another's Sorrow\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eSongs of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Hear the voice of the Bard!\u003cbr\u003eThe Tyger\u003cbr\u003eA Poison Tree\u003cbr\u003eThe Sick Rose\u003cbr\u003eAh! Sun-Flower\u003cbr\u003eLondon\u003cbr\u003eInfant Sorrow\u003cbr\u003eThe Human Abstract\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever seek to tell thy love\u003cbr\u003eMock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau\u003cbr\u003eThe Mental Traveller\u003cbr\u003eThe Crystal Cabinet\u003cbr\u003eAuguries of Innocence\u003cbr\u003eFor the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eMilton\u003c\/i\u003e: And did those feet in ancient time\u003cbr\u003eThe Book of Thel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Burns (1759-1796) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Jolly Beggars: A Cantata\u003cbr\u003eAddress to the Deil\u003cbr\u003eHoly Willie's Prayer\u003cbr\u003eTam Samson's Elegy\u003cbr\u003eOpen the Door to Me, Oh!\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet's Welcome to His Love-begotten Daughter\u003cbr\u003eA Red, Red Rose\u003cbr\u003eYe flowery banks\u003cbr\u003eSimmer's a pleasant time\u003cbr\u003eO whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad\u003cbr\u003eIt was a' for our rightfu' king\u003cbr\u003eAe fond kiss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Crabbe (1754-1832) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Village\u003c\/i\u003e: Village Life\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Borough\u003c\/i\u003e: Peter Grimes\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eSir Eustace Grey\u003c\/i\u003e: Peace, peace, my friend\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Freneau (1752-1832) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe House of Night\u003c\/i\u003e: By some sad means\u003cbr\u003eThe Wild Honeysuckle\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Burying Ground\u003cbr\u003eThe Adventures of Simon Swaugum, a Village Merchant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake\u003cbr\u003eThe Field of the Grounded Arms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSir Walter Scott (1771-1832) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Eve of Saint John\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eMarmion\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eSong: Where shall the lover rest\u003cbr\u003eThe Battle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Lady of the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eThe western waves of ebbing day\u003cbr\u003eBoat Song\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePibroch of Donuil Dhu\u003cbr\u003eProud Maisie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhantom\u003cbr\u003eThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u003cbr\u003eKubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream\u003cbr\u003eDejection: An Ode\u003cbr\u003eThis Lime-Tree Bower My Prison\u003cbr\u003eFrost at Midnight\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Wordsworth (1770-1850) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was a Boy\u003cbr\u003eTo H. C.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a beauteous evening, calm and free\u003cbr\u003eThe world is too much with us\u003cbr\u003eComposed upon Westminster Bridge\u003cbr\u003eLondon, 1802\u003cbr\u003eWhere lies the Land\u003cbr\u003eRuth\u003cbr\u003eResolution and Independence\u003cbr\u003eThe Affliction of Margaret\u003cbr\u003eThree years she grew in sun and shower\u003cbr\u003eA slumber did my spirit seal\u003cbr\u003eShe was a Phantom of delight\u003cbr\u003eStepping Westward\u003cbr\u003eThe Solitary Reaper\u003cbr\u003eA Complaint\u003cbr\u003eGreat men have been among us\u003cbr\u003eMutability\u003cbr\u003eLines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey\u003cbr\u003eOde: Intimations of Immortality\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Prelude\u003c\/i\u003e (1850):\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction - Childhood and School-Time\u003cbr\u003eSummer Vacation\u003cbr\u003eBooks\u003cbr\u003eCambridge and the Alps\u003cbr\u003eResidence in London\u003cbr\u003eResidence in France\u003cbr\u003eResidence in France (continued)\u003cbr\u003eImagination and Taste\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHartley Coleridge (1796-1849) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong time a child, and still a child, when years\u003cbr\u003eTo a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl\u003cbr\u003eLines -: I have been cherished and forgiven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo a Waterfowl\u003cbr\u003eSummer Wind\u003cbr\u003eThe Prairies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Savage Landor (1775-1864) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLately our poets Rose Aylmer\u003cbr\u003eIanthe Grateful Acacia!\u003cbr\u003eTo Our House-Dog Captain\u003cbr\u003eDirce\u003cbr\u003eDeath stands above me    Age\u003cbr\u003eIzaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways\u003cbr\u003eMimnermus incert.\u003cbr\u003eTernissa! You are fled         Dull is my verse\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Moore (1779-1852) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Meeting of the Waters\u003cbr\u003eBelieve me, if all those endearing young charms\u003cbr\u003eIll Omens\u003cbr\u003eAt the mid hour of night\u003cbr\u003eOft, in the stilly night\u003cbr\u003e'Tis the last rose of summer\u003cbr\u003eTo ladies' eyes\u003cbr\u003eThey may rail at this life\u003cbr\u003eI wish I was by that dim Lake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo, we'll go no more a roving\u003cbr\u003eShe walks in beauty\u003cbr\u003eAnd thou art dead\u003cbr\u003eFare thee well\u003cbr\u003eDarkness\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eChilde Harold's Pilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eLake Leman\u003cbr\u003eThe Ocean\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eDon Juan\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eDonna Julia\u003cbr\u003eGulbeyaz\u003cbr\u003eLady Adeline Amundeville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLines Written Among the Euganean Hills\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eCharles the First\u003c\/i\u003e: A widow bird\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003ePrometheus Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e: Life of life\u003cbr\u003eOde to the West Wind\u003cbr\u003eThe Cloud\u003cbr\u003eHymn of Pan\u003cbr\u003eTo -: Music, when soft voices die\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eHellas\u003c\/i\u003e: Chorus\u003cbr\u003eAdonais\u003cbr\u003eLines: When the lamp is shattered\u003cbr\u003eThe Triumph of Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Darley (1795-1846) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNepenthe\u003c\/i\u003e: The Unicorn\u003cbr\u003eThe Mermaidens' Vesper Hymn\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eEthelstan\u003c\/i\u003e: O'er the wild gannet's bath\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Keats (1795-1821) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn First Looking into Chapman's Homer\u003cbr\u003eSonnet: Keen fearful gusts are whispering\u003cbr\u003eTo Sleep\u003cbr\u003eSonnet: Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art\u003cbr\u003eA Song About Myself\u003cbr\u003eOde to a Nightingale\u003cbr\u003eOde on a Grecian Urn\u003cbr\u003eOde to Psyche\u003cbr\u003eTo Autumn\u003cbr\u003eOde on Melancholy\u003cbr\u003eFragment of an Ode to Maia\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eEndymion\u003c\/i\u003e: Hymn to Pan\u003cbr\u003eLa Belle Dame Sans Merci\u003cbr\u003eThe Eve of St. Agnes\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eHyperion\u003c\/i\u003e: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeigh Hunt (1784-1859) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Fish, the Man, and the Spirit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Hood (1799-1845) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSonnet to Vauxhall\u003cbr\u003eA Friendly Address\u003cbr\u003eSilence           I remember, I remember\u003cbr\u003eThe Sea of Death\u003cbr\u003eOde: Autumn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eEvery Day Characters\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eThe Vicar\u003cbr\u003ePortrait of a Lady\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood-Night to the Season\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Clare (1793-1864) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI Am \u003cbr\u003eThe Ploughboy         Birds' Lament\u003cbr\u003eEmmonsail's Heath in Winter\u003cbr\u003eSchoolboys in Winter        Badger\u003cbr\u003eThe Frightened Ploughman\u003cbr\u003eGipsies    Autumn\u003cbr\u003eClock-a-clay (The Ladybird)\u003cbr\u003eSecret Love\u003cbr\u003eInvitation to Eternity\u003cbr\u003eFragment: Language has not the power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHamatreya\u003cbr\u003eWater      The Snowstorm\u003cbr\u003eParks and ponds\u003cbr\u003eGive all to love\u003cbr\u003eBacchus\u003cbr\u003eDays\u003cbr\u003eMerlin: II\u003cbr\u003eOde to Beauty\u003cbr\u003eLimits   Experience\u003cbr\u003eThe Past\u003cbr\u003eTerminus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Old Marlborough Road\u003cbr\u003eWhat's the railroad to me?\u003cbr\u003eI am a parcel of vain strivings tied\u003cbr\u003eWho sleeps by day and walks by night\u003cbr\u003eI was born upon thy bank, river\u003cbr\u003eOn the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon\u003cbr\u003eThe moon now rises to her absolute rule\u003cbr\u003eTo a Marsh Hawk in Spring       Great Friend\u003cbr\u003eAt midnight's hour I raised my head\u003cbr\u003eAmong the worst of men that ever lived\u003cbr\u003eTall Ambrosia\u003cbr\u003eForever in my dream and in my morning thought\u003cbr\u003eFor though the caves were rabbited\u003cbr\u003eI was made erect and lone\u003cbr\u003eTo the Mountains\u003cbr\u003eBetween the traveller and the setting sun\u003cbr\u003eI'm thankful that my life doth not deceive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Barnes (1801-1886) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZun-zet\u003cbr\u003eThe Clote (Water-Lily)\u003cbr\u003eThe Wind at the Door\u003cbr\u003eThe Lost Little Sister\u003cbr\u003eMy Love's Guardian Angel\u003cbr\u003eTo Me\u003cbr\u003eTokens\u003cbr\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIchabod\u003cbr\u003eFor Righteousness' Sake\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eAmong the Hills\u003c\/i\u003e: Prelude\u003cbr\u003eThe Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk\u003cbr\u003eThe Brewing of Soma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJones Very (1813-1880) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYourself\u003cbr\u003eThe hand and foot\u003cbr\u003eThy Brother's Blood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eDeath's Jest-Book\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eDirge: If thou wilt ease thine heart\u003cbr\u003eSong: Old Adam, the carrion crow\u003cbr\u003eEpithalamia\u003cbr\u003eDirge: The swallow leaves her nest\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eTorrismond\u003c\/i\u003e: How many times do I love thee dear\u003cbr\u003eDream-Pedlary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe City in the Sea\u003cbr\u003eThe Sleeper\u003cbr\u003eThe Valley of Unrest\u003cbr\u003eThe Haunted Palace\u003cbr\u003eTo Helen\u003cbr\u003eIsrafel\u003cbr\u003eFrom childhood's hour\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Titles and First Lines\u003cbr\u003eBiographical Notes\u003cbr\u003e0\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default 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