Books to acquire:
- Shelley Mary Hunter, J. Paul: Frankenstein. (Norton Critical Edition, New York 1996)
- Duncan Wu ed., Romanticism: An Anthology, Third Edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009)
Texts from Wu, Romanticism:
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743—1825)
- ‘Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade’
- ‘The Rights of Woman’
William Blake (1757—1827)
- ‘The Lamb’
- ‘The Tyger’
- ‘London’
- ‘And did those feet in ancient time [from Milton]’
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
- From Refelctions on the Revolution in France (all extracts)
Robert Burns (1759—96)
- ‘To a Mouse, on Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785’
John Clare (1793—1864)
- ‘I Am’
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
- ‘Kubla Khan’ From Biographia Literaria (all extracts)
William Godwin (1756-1836)
- From Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (all extracts)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788—1824)
- ‘Prometheus’
- Don Juan, Cantos I and II
John Keats (1795—1821)
- ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
- ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
- ‘Ode on Melancholy’
- ‘To Autumn’
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
- From The Rights of Man (I and II, all excerpts)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)
- ‘To Wordsworth’
- ‘Ode to the West Wind’
- ‘To a Skylark’
- ‘England in 1819’
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
- From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (all excerpts)
William Wordsworth (1770—1850)
- ‘Resolution and Independence’
- ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ (Daffodils)
- ‘London 1802’
- Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
- Excerpts from The Prelude (from all four versions; to be announced)
*From Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (also in Wu, Romanticism)*
Wordsworth
- Advertisement (1798)
- ‘The Idiot Boy’
- ‘Lines (Written a few miles above Tintern Abbey)’
Coleridge
- ‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’