Novels + extracts from novels
- Ann Radcliffe, extract from The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)*
- Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796) – Oxford World’s Classics Edition
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- Thomas De Quincey, extracts from Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Non-fiction prose works
- Edmund Burke, extract from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)*
- Mary Wollstonecraft, extract from A Vindication on the Rights of Men (1790)*
- Thomas Paine, extract from Rights of Man (1791)*
- Mary Wollstonecraft, extract from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)*
- William Wordsworth, extracts from ‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’ (1802)*
Poems
- Anna Letitia Barbauld, ‘The Rights of Woman’ (1792-5)*
- William Blake, ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ (1794 and 1789)*
- William Wordsworth, ‘London, 1802’ (1802)*
- Charlotte Smith, ‘The Swallow’ (1807)*
- William Wordsworth, ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ (1807)*
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ (1797-8; published 1816)*
- Percy Shelley, ‘To Wordsworth’ (1818)*
- John Keats, ‘Sonnet on the Sonnet’ (c.1818) – available through Literature Online
- John Keats, ‘To Autumn’ (1820)*
+ The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 10th edition, vol. D, ‘The Romantic Period’