The English Romantic Poets: An Anthology is a rare collection in that it includes representative poems of both the canonical and the non-canonical poets. Therefore, while there is poetry by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley, there is also the work of Anna Lætitia Barbauld, Sydney Owenson and Anna Seward. This anthology also features political poetry about the slave trade, the state of the colonial Empire, industrialisation and labour strifes, and contemporary political debates.
Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, the University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include Digital Cool: Life in the Age of New Media (Orient BlackSwan 2012), Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (2012), Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India (2012), States of Sentiment: Exploring the Cultures of Emotion (Orient BlackSwan 2011), Postcolonialism (2010) and Packaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday (2009). He is also the editor of English Poetry 1660–1780: An Anthology (EFL-U and Orient BlackSwan 2010), English Poetry from the Elizabethans to the Restoration: An Anthology (Orient BlackSwan 2012) and the forthcoming English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Orient BlackSwan). When tired of the very literary, he also publishes essays on superhero comics.
Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The English Romantics: An Annotated Timeline 1. Anna Lætitia Barbauld Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. 2. Hannah More The Sorrows of Yamba, or the Negro Woman’s Lamentation Sensibility: a Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs Boscawen 3. Anna Seward Chill’d by Unkind HONORA’s Alter’d Eye To the Right Honourable Lady Eleanor Butler with the Same Present Elegy While One Sere Leaf, that Parting Autumn Yields Behold that Tree, in Autumn’s Dim Decay 4. William Blake Auguries of Innocence From Songsof Innocence The Divine Image The School Boy The Chimney Sweeper The Little Black Boy Holy Thursday From Songsof Experience The Clod and the Pebble The Sick Rose Holy Thursday The Tyger London The Human Abstract The Earth’s Answer Ah! Sunflower 5. Joanna Baillie A Mother to Her Waking Infant Song 6. Ann Batten Cristall Song: On Leaving the Country Early in the Spring Elegy 7. Amelia Alderson Opie On the Approach of Autumn Ode to Borrowdale in Cumberland Song of a Hindustani Girl The Negro Boy’s Tale 8. William Wordsworth Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798 Upon Westminster Bridge London, 1802 Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower The Solitary Reaper The Old Cumberland Beggar My Heart Leaps Up The Reverie of Poor Susan The World is too Much with Us 9. Walter Scott A Serenade Lochinvar MacGregor’s Gathering 10. Charlotte Byrne (née King) The Female Philosopher The Poor Negro Sadi 11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge This Lime-tree Bower, My Prison, A Poem On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America Dejection: An Ode Frost at Midnight Kubla Khan: A Vision in Fragments Limbo Ode to Tranquility The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Fears in Solitude. Written April 1798, During the Alarms of an Invasion 12. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan The Boudoir Home 13. Robert Southey Poems on the Slave Trade: Sonnet I Poems on the Slave Trade: Sonnet VI To the Genius of Africa 14. George Gordon, Lord Byron On Chillon She Walks in Beauty When We Two Parted Darkness 15. Percy Bysshe Shelley England in 1819 Ode to the West Wind Ozymandias Ode to a Skylark Hymn to Intellectual Beauty Mutability The Masque of Anarchy 16. Felicia Hemans The Indian City Indian Woman’s Death Song Casabianca 17. John Clare The Village Minstrel (Extracts) 18. John Keats Ode to Psyche On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Ode on Melancholy La Belle Dame Sans Merci Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to a Nightingale To Autumn 19. Letitia Elizabeth Landon A Suttee A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stewardson On an Engraving of Hindoo Temples The Nizam’s Daughter Index: Theme-based List of Poems