Introduction xvi Editor''s Note on the Fifth Edition xxiii Editorial Principles xxiv Acknowledgements xxv A Romantic Timeline 1770-1851 xxviii About the Companion Website Iiii William Blake (1757-1827) 1 All Religions Are One (composed c.1788) 5 There Is No Natural Religion (composed c.1788) 6 The Book of Thel (1789) 7 Songs of Innocence (1789) 11 Songs of Experience (1794) 22 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) 36 Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) 47 The First Book of Urizen (1794) 53 Letter from William Blake to the Revd Dr Trusler, 23 August 1799 (extract) 68 From ''The Pickering Manuscript'' (composed 1800-4) 69 From ''Milton'' (composed 1803-8) 72 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) 73 Advertisement (by Wordsworth, working from Coleridge''s notes, composed June 1798) 75 The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts (by Coleridge, composed November 1797-March 1798) 76 The Foster-Mother''s Tale: A Dramatic Fragment (by Coleridge, extracted from Osorio, composed April-September 1797) 94 Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree which Stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, yet Commanding a Beautiful Prospect (by Wordsworth, composed April-May 1797) 96 The Nightingale; A Conversational Poem, Written in April 1798 (by Coleridge, composed April-May 1798) 97 The Female Vagrant (by Wordsworth, derived from ''Salisbury Plain'', initially composed late summer 1793 and revised for inclusion in Lyrical Ballads, 1798) 100 Goody Blake and Harry Gill: A True Story (by Wordsworth, composed 7-13 March 1798) 107 Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House, and Sent by My Little Boy to the Person to Whom They are Addressed (by Wordsworth, composed 1-9 March 1798) 110 Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman, with an Incident in which He Was Concerned (by Wordsworth, composed between March and 16 May 1798) 111 Anecdote for Fathers, Showing How the Art of Lying May Be Taught (by Wordsworth, composed between April and 16 May 1798) 114 We Are Seven (by Wordsworth, composed between April and 16 May 1798) 116 Lines Written in Early Spring (by Wordsworth, composed c.12 April 1798) 118 The Thorn (by Wordsworth, composed between 19 March and 20 April 1798) 119 The Last of the Flock (by Wordsworth, composed between March and 16 May 1798) 125 The Dungeon (by Coleridge, extracted from Osorio, composed April-September 1797) 128 The Mad Mother (by Wordsworth, composed between March and 16 May 1798) 129 The Idiot Boy (by Wordsworth, composed between March and 16 May 1798) 131 Lines Written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening (by Wordsworth, derived from a sonnet written 1789, complete in this form by 29 March 1797) 142 Expostulation and Reply (by Wordsworth, composed probably 23 May 1798) 143 The Tables Turned: An Evening Scene, on the Same Subject (by Wordsworth, composed probably 23 May 1798) 144 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch (by Wordsworth, composed by June 1797) 145 The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman (by Wordsworth, composed between early March and 16 May 1798) 146 The Convict (by Wordsworth, composed between 21 March and October 1796) 148 Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, 13 July 1798 (by Wordsworth, composed 10-13 July 1798) 149 William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 153 A Night-Piece 157 The Discharged Soldier 158 The Ruined Cottage 162 The Pedlar 174 The Two-Part Prelude 183 There Was a Boy 206 Nutting 207 Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known 208 Song 209 A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal 210 Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower 210 The Brothers: A Pastoral Poem 211 Preface to Lyrical Ballads 223 Note to ''The Thorn'' 232 Note to Coleridge''s ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' 234 Michael: A Pastoral Poem 234 I Travelled among Unknown Men 246 Preface to Lyrical Ballads 246 To H.C., Six Years Old 248 The Rainbow 249 These Chairs They Have No Words to Utter 249 Resolution and Independence 250 I Grieved for Buonaparte 254 The World Is too Much with Us 254 Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 255 To Toussaint L''Ouverture 255 It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free 256 1 September 1802 256 London 1802 257 Great Men Have Been among Us 257 Ode 258 Daffodils 262 Stepping Westward 263 The Solitary Reaper 264 Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont 265 Star Gazers 267 St Paul''s 268 Surprised by Joy - Impatient as the Wind 268 Conclusion to The River Duddon 269 Airey-Force Valley 269 Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 270 From The Fenwick Notes (dictated 1843) 271 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 273 To the River Otter 277 Letter from S.T. Coleridge to George Dyer, 10 March 1795 (extract) 278 The Eolian Harp.

Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire (1834) 279 Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement 281 Religious Musings (extract) 283 Letter from S.T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 19 November 1796 (extract) 285 This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (1834) 285 Letter from S.T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 14 October 1797 (extract) 288 Letter from S.T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 16 October 1797 (extract) 288 Of the Fragment of ''Kubla Khan'' (1816) 289 Kubla Khan (1816) 290 Frost at Midnight (1834) 291 Christabel 293 Letter from S.T.

Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 6 April 1799 (extract) 310 The Day-Dream 310 The Picture; or, The Lover''s Resolution 311 A Letter to Sara Hutchinson, 4 April 1802. Sunday Evening 315 A Day-Dream 324 Dejection: An Ode 325 The Pains of Sleep (1816) 328 Letter from S.T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 14 October 1803 (extract) 330 Letter from S.T. Coleridge to Richard Sharp, 15 January 1804 (extract) 330 To William Wordsworth. Lines Composed, for the Greater Part, on the Night on which He Finished the Recitation of His Poem in Thirteen Books, concerning the Growth and History of His Own Mind, January 1807, Coleorton, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch 331 Letter from S.T.

Coleridge to William Wordsworth, 30 May 1815 (extract) 334 From Biographia Literaria (1817) 336 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts (1817) 337 From Table Talk 354 The Ancient Mariner 354 The True Way for a Poet 354 The Recluse 355 Keats 355 George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) 356 She Walks in Beauty 363 Childe Harold''s Pilgrimage: Canto III 363 Prometheus 397 Stanzas to Augusta 398 Epistle to Augusta 400 Darkness 404 Letter from Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 February 1817 (extract; including ''So We''ll Go No More a-Roving'') 406 Don Juan 407 Letter from Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819 (extract) 509 Messalonghi, 22 January 1824. On This Day I Complete My Thirty- Sixth Year 509 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 511 To Wordsworth 517 Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude 517 Journal- Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, 22 July to 2 August 1816 (extract) 535 Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 537 Mont Blanc. Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni 539 Ozymandias 543 On Love 543 Lines Written among the Euganean Hills, October 1818 545 Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples 554 The Mask of Anarchy. Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester 555 Ode to the West Wind 565 England in 1819 568 Lift Not the Painted Veil 568 On Life 569 To a Skylark 571 A Defence of Poetry; or, Remarks Suggested by an Essay Entitled ''The Four Ages of Poetry'' (extracts) 574 Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. 587 Music, When Soft Voices Die 604 When Passion''s Trance Is Overpast 604 To Edward Williams 605 With a Guitar, to Jane 606 John Keats (1795-1821) 609 On First Looking into Chapman''s Homer 616 Addressed to Haydon 617 On the Grasshopper and the Cricket 617 From ''Endymion: A Poetic Romance'', Book I 618 Letter from John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817 (extract) 622 Letter from John Keats to George and Tom Keats, 21 December 1817 (extract) 623 On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 624 When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be 625 Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 February 1818 (extract) 625 Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil: A Story from Boccaccio 626 Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 May 1818 (extract) 642 Letter from John Keats to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818 643 Hyperion: A Fragment 644 The Eve of St Agnes 665 Journal-Letter from John Keats to George and Georgiana Keats, 14 February-3 May 1819 (extracts) 676 La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad 677 Ode to Psyche 679 Ode to a Nightingale 681 Ode on a Grecian Urn 683 Ode on Melancholy 685 Ode on Indolence 686 Lamia 688 To Autumn 704 The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream 705 Bright Star,.