Romanticism (1780-1830)

POETRY

Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience
_____. Marriage of Heaven and Hell
_____. Vision of the Daughters of Albion
_____. Milton
Burns, Robert. Selected poems
Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
_____. The Giaour
_____. The Corsair
_____. Manfred
_____. Cain
_____. The Vision of Judgment
_____. Don Juan
Clare, John. Selected poems
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Complete poems
_____. Biographia Literaria
Cowper, William. The Task
Crabbe, George. The Borough: Peter Grimes
Hemans, Felicia. Selected poems
_____. The Siege of Valencia
Keats, John. Complete poems, selected letters
Ossian (James Macpherson). Fingal
Percy, Thomas (ed.). Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Shelley, Percy. Major lyrics, Alastor, Julian and Maddalo
_____. The Cenci
_____. Prometheus Unbound
_____. The Witch of Atlas
_____. Epipsychidion
_____. Adonais
_____. The Triumph of Life
_____. A Defence of Poetry
Southey, Robert. The Fall of Robespierre, Poems (1797-1799)
Smith, Charlotte. Elegiac Sonnets
Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads, Preface, Prelude, Excursion, major lyrics

PROSE

Baillie, Joanna. Introductory Discourse to Plays
Beckford, William. Vathek
Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
_____. Reflections on the Revolution in France
Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus
_____. Signs of the Times
De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
_____. Recollections of the Lake Poets
Galt, John. The Provost
Godwin, William. Caleb Williams
_____. Memoir of Mary Wollstonecraft
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. The Sorrows of Young Werther
Hazlitt, William. The Spirit of the Age
_____. Table Talk
_____. Lectures on English Poets
Hogg, James. Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Lamb, Charles. Essays of Elia
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. “Milton”
Maturin, Charles. Melmoth the Wanderer
Mill, John Stuart. “What is Poetry?"
Peacock, Thomas Love. “The Four Ages of Poetry”
_____. Nightmare Abbey
Radcliffe, Anne. The Mysteries of Udolpho
Scott, Walter. Waverley
_____. Ivanhoe
_____. Bride of Lammermoor
_____. Old Mortality
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
_____. The Last Man
Smith, Adam. Theory of Moral Sentiments
Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
_____. Letters from Sweden
_____. Maria
Wordsworth, Dorothy. “Journals”
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