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Romantic Poetry | |
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William Blake | |
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Poetical Sketches | |
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To Spring | |
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To the Evening Star | |
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Song | |
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Mad Song | |
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To the Muses | |
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience | |
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Songs of Innocence | |
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Introduction | |
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The Lamb | |
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The Little Black Boy | |
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The Chimney Sweeper | |
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The Divine Image | |
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Holy Thursday | |
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Songs of Experience | |
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Introduction | |
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Earth's Answer | |
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Holy Thursday | |
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The Chimney Sweeper | |
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The Sick Rose | |
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The Tyger | |
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Ah! Sun-flower | |
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London | |
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The Human Abstract | |
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To Tirzah | |
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The Book of Thel | |
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | |
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Visions of the Daughters of Albion | |
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America a Prophecy | |
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Blake's Notebook | |
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Never Pain To Tell Thy Love | |
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To Nobodaddy | |
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What Is It Men in Women Do Require? | |
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My Spectre Around Me Night & Day | |
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Mock on Mock on Voltaire Rousseau | |
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Morning | |
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When Klopstock England Defied | |
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Epigrams | |
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The Mental Traveller | |
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The Crystal Cabinet | |
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Auguries of Innocence | |
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The Four Zoas | |
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[Song of Enitharmon] | |
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[Song of Enion] | |
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Night the Ninth Being The Last Judgment | |
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Milton | |
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Preface | |
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[Milton's Descent] | |
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[The World of Los] | |
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[The Vision of Beulah] | |
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[Milton's Declaration] | |
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Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion | |
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[The Spectre of Urthona] | |
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[The Minute Particulars] | |
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[The Declaration of Los] | |
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Epilogue from The Gates of Paradise | |
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[A Vision of the Last Judgment] | |
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The Letters | |
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To Dr. Trusler 23 August 1799 | |
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To George Cumberland 12 April 1827 | |
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William Wordsworth | |
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Lines Written in Early Spring | |
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Expostulation and Reply | |
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The Tables Turned | |
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To My Sister | |
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The Ruined Cottage | |
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Home at Grasmere | |
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"Prospectus" to The Excursion | |
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Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey | |
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Nutting | |
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[The Lucy Poems] | |
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Strange Fits of Passion | |
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She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways | |
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Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower | |
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A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal | |
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I Travelled Among Unknown Men | |
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Lucy Gray; Or, Solitude | |
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Michael, A Pastoral Poem | |
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My Heart Leaps Up | |
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Resolution and Independence | |
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Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | |
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It Is a Beauteous Evening | |
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | |
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The World Is Too Much with Us | |
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | |
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She Was a Phantom of Delight | |
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Ode to Duty | |
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The Solitary Reaper | |
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Elegiac Stanzas | |
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The Prelude | |
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Introduction-Childhood and School-Time | |
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School-Time | |
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Summer Vacation | |
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Books | |
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Cambridge and the Alps | |
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Residence in London | |
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Retrospect | |
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Residence in France | |
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France | |
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Imagination and Taste, How Impaired and Restored | |
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Conclusion | |
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Surprised by Joy | |
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Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour and Beauty | |
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Mutability | |
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Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg | |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
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Sonnet: To the River Otter | |
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The Eolian Harp | |
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | |
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Kubla Khan | |
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Christabel | |
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Frost at Midnight | |
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Dejection: An Ode | |
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Phantom | |
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To William Wordsworth | |
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On Donne's Poetry | |
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Limbo | |
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Ne Plus Ultra | |
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To Nature | |
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Epitaph | |
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George Gordon, Lord Byron | |
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English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | |
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Lara | |
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Stanzas for Music | |
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, A Romaunt | |
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Canto the Third | |
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Canto the Fourth | |
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Prometheus | |
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Darkness | |
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Manfred | |
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'So We'll Go No More A-Roving' | |
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Don Juan | |
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Dedication | |
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Selections from Canto I | |
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Canto III | |
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Canto IV | |
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Canto V | |
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Canto VII | |
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Canto IX | |
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Canto XI | |
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Stanzas to the Po | |
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The Vision of Judgment | |
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On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year | |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley | |
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Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude | |
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Hymn to Intellectual Beauty | |
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Mont Blanc | |
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Ozymandias | |
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Julian and Maddalo | |
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Prometheus Unbound | |
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Preface | |
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Selections from Act I | |
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Act II: scene iv | |
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Scene v | |
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Act III: scene i | |
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Scene ii | |
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Scene iii | |
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Act IV | |
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England in 1819 | |
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Ode to the West Wind | |
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To a Skylark | |
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The Sensitive Plant | |
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Hymn of Apollo | |
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The Two Spirits: An Allegory | |
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Epipsychidion | |
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[Three Sermons on Free Love] | |
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[The Annihilation of Love] | |
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Adonais | |
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To Night | |
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Hellas | |
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With a Guitar, To Jane | |
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Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici | |
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The Triumph of Life | |
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John Keats | |
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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | |
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On the Grasshopper and Cricket | |
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Sleep and Poetry | |
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On the Sea | |
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In Drear-Nighted December | |
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Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds | |
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When I Have Fears | |
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Fragment of an Ode to Maia | |
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Hyperion. A Fragment | |
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The Eve of St. Agnes | |
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci | |
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On the Sonnet | |
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Ode to Psyche | |
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Ode to a Nightingale | |
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Ode on a Grecian Urn | |
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Ode on Melancholy | |
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The Fall of Hyperion. A Dream | |
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To Autumn | |
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To-[Fanny Brawne] | |
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Bright Star | |
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This Living Hand | |
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Other Romantic Poets | |
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William Lisle Bowles | |
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To the River Itchin, Near Winton | |
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Sir Walter Scott | |
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The Dreary Change | |
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'Proud Maisie' | |
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The Song of the Reim-kennar | |
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Walter Savage Landor | |
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'Lately Our Poets' | |
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[Rose Alymer, 1779-1800] | |
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Dirce | |
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On His Seventy-fifth Birthday | |
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Death Stands Above Me | |
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Poem | |
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Autumnal Song | |
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Memory | |
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To Wordsworth | |
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To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14-May 3, 1819) | |
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To George and Georgiana Keats (Sept. 21, 1819) | |
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To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820) | |
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To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820) | |
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Victorian Prose | |
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Thomas Carlyle | |
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Sartor Resartus | |
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The Everlasting No | |
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The Everlasting Yea | |
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Natural Supernaturalism | |
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History | |
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The Hero as Poet [Shakespeare] | |
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Past and Present | |
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Labour | |
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Reward | |
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Democracy | |
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John Stuart Mill | |
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What Is Poetry? | |
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On Liberty | |
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Of Individuality | |
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On the Subjection of Women | |
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On the Equality of the Sexes | |
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Autobiography | |
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A Crisis in My Mental History | |
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John Henry Cardinal Newman | |
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The Tamworth Reading Room | |
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Secular Knowledge Not a Principle of Action | |
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Discourses to Mixed Congregations | |
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Faith and Private Judgment | |
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The Idea of a University | |
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Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill | |
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua | |
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Position of My Mind Since 1845 | |
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Liberalism | |
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John Ruskin | |
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Modern Painters | |
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Of the Real Nature of Greatness of Style | |
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The Stones of Venice | |
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The Nature of Gothic | |
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Unto This Last | |
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The Roots of Honour | |
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Matthew Arnold | |
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First Edition of Poems, Preface | |
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The Function of Criticism at the Present Time | |
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The Study of Poetry | |
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Literature and Science | |
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T. H. Huxley | |
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On the Physical Basis of Life | |
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William Morris | |
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The Beauty of Life | |
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Walter Pater | |
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The Renaissance | |
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Romanticism | |
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Samuel Butler | |
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Erewhon | |
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Birth Formulae | |
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The World of the Unborn | |
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Oscar Wilde | |
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The Importance of Being Earnest | |
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Victorian Poetry | |
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson | |
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Mariana | |
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The Kraken | |
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The Lady of Shalott | |
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The Hesperides | |
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The Lotos-Eaters | |
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The Eagle | |
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St. Simeon Stylites | |
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Ulysses | |
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Tithonus | |
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Morte d'Arthur | |
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Locksley Hall | |
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The Vision of Sin | |
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Songs from The Princess | |
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The Splendour Falls | |
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Tears, Idle Tears | |
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Come Down, O Maid | |
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In Memoriam A.H.H. | |
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Prologue | |
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Epilogue | |
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Maud: A Monodrama | |
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Come into the Garden, Maud | |
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O that 'twere possible | |
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Dead, long dead | |
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My life has crept so long on a broken wing | |
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Idylls of the King | |
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[Vivien's Song] | |
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[Percivale's Quest] | |
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Lucretius | |
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To Virgil | |
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Merlin and The Gleam | |
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Crossing the Bar | |
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Robert Browning | |
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Pauline | |
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A Fragment of a Confession | |
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Johannes Agricola in Meditation | |
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Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister | |
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My Last Duchess | |
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The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church | |
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Love Among the Ruins | |
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Fra Lippo Lippi | |
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A Toccata of Galuppi's | |
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By the Fire-side | |
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'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came' | |
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How It Strikes a Contemporary | |
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Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha | |
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Memorabilia | |
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Andrea del Sarto | |
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Cleon | |
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Popularity | |
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The Heretic's Tragedy | |
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Two in the Campagna | |
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Abt Vogler | |
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Caliban upon Setebos | |
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Thamuris Marching | |
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Asolando: Prologue | |
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Bad Dreams III | |
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Matthew Arnold | |
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The Strayed Reveller | |
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To Marguerite-Continued | |
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Courage | |
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Empedocles on Etna [Song of Callicles] | |
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Memorial Verses | |
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Dover Beach | |
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The Buried Life | |
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Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse | |
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The Scholar-Gipsy | |
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Philomela | |
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Palladium | |
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Growing Old | |
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The Last Word | |
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Bacchanalia; or, The New Age | |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Poets | |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |
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The Blessed Damozel | |
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The Woodspurge | |
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Sestina (after Dante) | |
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Sudden Light | |
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The Sea-Limits | |
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The House of Life: A Sonnet Sequence | |
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Willowwood (Sonnets XLIX-LII) | |
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Ardour and Memory | |
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Autumn Idleness | |
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Body's Beauty | |
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Barren Spring | |
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A Superscription | |
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The One Hope | |
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The Orchard-Pit | |
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George Meredith | |
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Love in the Valley | |
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Modern Love | |
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I (By this he knew she wept with waking eyes) | |
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XLVII (We saw the swallows gathering in the sky) | |
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XLVIII (Their sense is with their senses all mixed in) | |
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XLIX (He found her by the Ocean's moaning verge) | |
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L (Thus piteously Love closed what he begat) | |
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A Ballad of Past Meridian | |
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Lucifer in Starlight | |
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Christina Rossetti | |
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Song (When I am dead, my dearest) | |
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Rest | |
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Modern British Literature | |
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Thomas Hardy | |
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Hap | |
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Neutral Tones | |
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The Subalterns | |
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The Darkling Thrush | |
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In Tenebris (I) | |
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In Tenebris (III) | |
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The Schreckhorn | |
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The Dynasts [Chorus on the Eve of Waterloo] | |
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The Convergence of the Twain | |
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Wessex Heights | |
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'I Found Her Out There' | |
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The Voice | |
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Channel Firing | |
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The Oxen | |
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During Wind and Rain | |
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In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' | |
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Moments of Vision | |
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Afterwards | |
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'And There Was a Great Calm' | |
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Snow in the Suburbs | |
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Bernard Shaw | |
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Saint Joan | |
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Joseph Conrad | |
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Heart of Darkness | |
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William Butler Yeats | |
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The Sorrow of Love (1892) | |
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The Sorrow of Love (1927) | |
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The Two Trees | |
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Adam's Curse | |
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No Second Troy | |
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A Drinking Song | |
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To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing | |
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The Cold Heaven | |
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The Magi | |
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In Memory of Major Robert Gregory | |
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The Scholars | |
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A Thought from Propertius | |
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A Deep-Sworn Vow | |
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Michael Robartes and the Dancer | |
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Easter 1916 | |
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On a Political Prisoner | |
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The Second Coming | |
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Sailing to Byzantium | |
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Ancestral Houses | |
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Two Songs from a Play | |
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Leda and the Swan | |
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Among School Children | |
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In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz | |
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Coole Park, 1929 | |
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Byzantium | |
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Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop | |
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After Long Silence | |
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A Last Confession | |
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Meru | |
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Lapis Lazuli | |
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The Statues | |
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John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore | |
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The Circus Animals' Desertion | |
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Cuchulain Comforted | |
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Autobiographies | |
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The Trembling of the Veil: III | |
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Hodos Chameliontos | |
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The Trembling of the Veil: IV | |
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The Tragic Generation | |
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James Joyce | |
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Dubliners | |
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The Dead | |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | |
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[Stephen's Epiphany] | |
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[Stephen's Poem] | |
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Ulysses | |
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[Nausicaa] | |
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Finnegans Wake | |
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D. H. Lawrence | |
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The Prussian Officer | |
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St. Mawr | |
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Poems | |
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Piano | |
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River Roses | |
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Medlars and Sorb-Apples | |
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Bat | |
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Snake | |
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Tortoise Shell | |
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Figs | |
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Letter to a Wound | |
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Paysage Moralise | |
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Lullaby | |
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Song (As I walked out one evening) | |
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In Memory of Sigmund Freud | |
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In Memory of W. B. Yeats | |
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For the Time Being | |
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In Praise of Limestone | |
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The Fall of Rome | |
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The Proof | |
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Marginalia | |
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Louis Macneice | |
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Bagpipe Music | |
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Whit Monday | |
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Stephen Spender | |
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I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great | |
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Ultima Ratio Regum | |
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Edith Sitwell | |
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Hornpipe | |
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William Empson | |
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This Last Pain | |
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Villanelle | |
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Missing Dates | |
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Dylan Thomas | |
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When, Like a Running Grave | |
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Sonnet | |
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After the Funeral | |
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A Refusal To Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London | |
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Fern Hill | |
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'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' | |
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E. M. Forster | |
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What I Believe | |
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John Betjeman | |
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In Westminster Abbey | |
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George Orwell | |
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England Your England | |
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Samuel Beckett | |
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Watt [The Incident of the Galls, Father and Son] | |
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English Literary History in Process | |
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Basil Bunting | |
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Briggsflatts (Part V) | |
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Coda | |
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Stevie Smith | |
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Not Waving but Drowning | |
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John Heath-Stubbs | |
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The Dark Planet | |
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Philip Larkin | |
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Church Going | |
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Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album | |
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Donald Davie | |
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A Winter Talent | |
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Gardens No Emblems | |
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Kingsley Amis | |
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A Dream of Fair Women | |
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Thom Gunn | |
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On the Move | |
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Charles Tomlinson | |
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Through Binoculars | |
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Ted Hughes | |
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Pibroch | |
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A Childish Prank | |
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Geoffrey Hill | |
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Genesis | |
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Glossary | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Romantic | |
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Victorian | |
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Modern | |
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Indexes | |
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Authors and Titles | |
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First Lines of Poems | |