Portable Romantic Poets : Romantic Poets: Blake to Poe

by Various (Author); Auden, W. H. (Editor); Pearson, Norman Holmes (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780140150520
• ISBN10: 0140150528
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

This volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness and ardor of their vision, including William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Edgar Allan Poe. What emerges is a panoramic view of a generation of artists struggling to remake the world in their own image-and miraculously succeeding.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xii
General Principles	xxv
A Calendar of British and American Poetry	xxvi
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757--1827)	1	(31)
Song: Memory hither come	1	(1)
Mad Song	1	(1)
Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field	2	(1)
To Spring	3	(9)
From Songs of Innocence
Introduction: Piping down the valleys wild	4	(1)
The Little Black Boy	4	(1)
The Divine Image	5	(1)
On Another's Sorrow	6	(1)
From Songs of Experience
Introduction: Hear the voice of the Bard!	7	(1)
The Tyger	8	(1)
A Poison Tree	9	(1)
The Sick Rose	10	(1)
Ah! Sun-Flower	10	(1)
London	10	(1)
Infant Sorrow	11	(1)
The Human Abstract	11	(1)
Never seek to tell thy love	12	(1)
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau	13	(1)
The Mental Traveller	13	(4)
The Crystal Cabinet	17	(1)
Auguries of Innocence	18	(4)
For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise	22	(2)
From Milton: And did those feet in ancient time	24	(1)
The Book of Thel	25	(7)
ROBERT BURNS (1759--1796)	32	(31)
The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata	32	(12)
Address to the Deil	44	(4)
Holy Willie's Prayer	48	(3)
Tam Samson's Elegy	51	(4)
Open the Door to Me, Oh!	55	(1)
The Poet's Welcome to His Love-begotten Daughter	55	(2)
A Red, Red Rose	57	(1)
Ye flowery banks	58	(1)
Simmer's a pleasant time	59	(1)
O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad	59	(1)
It was a' for our rightfu' king	60	(1)
Ae fond kiss	61	(2)
GEORGE CRABBE (1754--1832)	63	(31)
From The Village: Village Life	63	(10)
From The Borough: Peter Grimes	73	(12)
From Sir Eustace Grey: Peace, peace, my friend	85	(9)
PHILIP FRENEAU (1752--1832)	94	(14)
From The House of Night: By some sad means	94	(2)
The Wild Honeysuckle	96	(1)
The Indian Burying Ground	97	(1)
The Adventures of Simon Swaugum, a Village Merchant	98	(10)
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK (1790--1867)	108	(5)
On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake	108	(1)
The Field of the Grounded Arms	109	(4)
SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771--1832)	113	(17)
The Eve of Saint John	113	(15)
From Marmion
Song: Where shall the lover rest	120	(1)
The Battle	121	(2)
The Lady of the Lake
The western waves of ebbing day	123	(3)
Boat Song	126	(2)
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu	128	(1)
Proud Maisie	129	(1)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772--1834)	130	(35)
Phantom	130	(1)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	130	(22)
Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream	152	(3)
Dejection: An Ode	155	(4)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison	159	(3)
Frost at Midnight	162	(3)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770--1850)	165	(64)
There was a Boy	165	(1)
To H. C.	166	(1)
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free	167	(1)
The world is too much with us	168	(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge	168	(1)
London, 1802	169	(1)
Where lies the Land	169	(1)
Ruth	170	(8)
Resolution and Independence	178	(5)
The Affliction of Margaret	183	(2)
Three years she grew in sun and shower	185	(2)
A slumber did my spirit seal	187	(1)
She was a Phantom of delight	187	(1)
Stepping Westward	188	(1)
The Solitary Reaper	189	(1)
A Complaint	190	(1)
Great men have been among us	191	(1)
Mutability	192	(1)
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey	192	(5)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality	197	(32)
From The Prelude (1850)
Introduction---Childhood and School-Time	204	(5)
Summer Vacation	209	(2)
Books	211	(3)
Cambridge and the Alps	214	(1)
Residence in London	215	(3)
Residence in France	218	(1)
Residence in France (continued)	219	(2)
Imagination and Taste	221	(4)
Conclusion	225	(4)
HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1796--1849)	229	(2)
Long time a child, and still a child, when years	229	(1)
To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl	229	(1)
Lines---: I have been cherished and forgiven	230	(1)
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794--1878)	231	(7)
To a Waterfowl	231	(1)
Summer Wind	232	(1)
The Prairies	233	(5)
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR (1775--1864)	238	(7)
Lately our poets Rose Aylmer	238	(1)
Ianthe Grateful Acacia!	239	(1)
To Our House-Dog Captain	240	(1)
Dirce	240	(1)
Death stands above me Age	241	(1)
Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways	241	(1)
Mimnermus incert.	242	(1)
Ternissa! You are fled Dull is my verse	243	(2)
THOMAS MOORE (1779--1852)	245	(9)
The Meeting of the Waters	245	(1)
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms	245	(1)
Ill Omens	246	(1)
At the mid hour of night	247	(1)
Oft, in the stilly night	248	(1)
'Tis the last rose of summer	249	(1)
To ladies' eyes	250	(1)
They may rail at this life	251	(1)
I wish I was by that dim Lake	252	(2)
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788--1824)	254	(63)
So, we'll go no more a roving	254	(1)
She walks in beauty	254	(1)
And thou art dead	255	(2)
Fare thee well	257	(3)
Darkness	260	(57)
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lake Leman	262	(3)
The Ocean	265	(2)
From Don Juan
Donna Julia	267	(16)
Gulbeyaz	283	(6)
Lady Adeline Amundeville	289	(28)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792--1822)	317	(57)
Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills	317	(11)
From Charles the First: A widow bird	328	(1)
From Prometheus Unbound: Life of life	328	(1)
Ode to the West Wind	329	(3)
The Cloud	332	(3)
Hymn of Pan	335	(1)
To---: Music, when soft voices die	336	(1)
From Hellas: Chorus	336	(2)
Adonais	338	(16)
Lines: When the lamp is shattered	354	(1)
The Triumph of Life	355	(19)
GEORGE DARLEY (1795--1846)	374	(3)
From Nepenthe: The Unicorn	374	(1)
The Mermaidens' Vesper Hymn	375	(1)
From Ethelstan: O'er the wild gannet's bath	375	(2)
JOHN KEATS (1795--1821)	377	(42)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	377	(1)
Sonnet: Keen fearful gusts are whispering	377	(1)
To Sleep	378	(1)
Sonnet: Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art	379	(1)
A Song About Myself	379	(4)
Ode to a Nightingale	383	(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn	385	(2)
Ode to Psyche	387	(2)
To Autumn	389	(1)
Ode on Melancholy	390	(1)
Fragment of an Ode to Maia	391	(1)
From Endymion: Hymn to Pan	392	(2)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	394	(2)
The Eve of St. Agnes	396	(12)
From Hyperion: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale	408	(11)
LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859)	419	(2)
The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit	419	(2)
THOMAS HOOD (1799--1845)	421	(15)
Sonnet to Vauxhall	421	(4)
A Friendly Address	425	(5)
Silence I remember, I remember	430	(2)
The Sea of Death	432	(1)
Ode: Autumn	433	(3)
WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED (1802--1839)	436	(11)
From Every Day Characters
The Vicar	436	(3)
Portrait of a Lady	439	(4)
Good-Night to the Season	443	(4)
JOHN CLARE (1793--1864)	447	(11)
I Am	447	(1)
The Ploughboy Birds' Lament	448	(1)
Emmonsail's Heath in Winter	449	(1)
Schoolboys in Winter Badger	450	(2)
The Frightened Ploughman	452	(1)
Gipsies Autumn	453	(1)
Clock-a-clay (The Ladybird)	454	(1)
Secret Love	455	(1)
Invitation to Eternity	456	(1)
Fragment: Language has not the power	457	(1)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803--1882)	458	(17)
Hamatreya	458	(2)
Water The Snowstorm	460	(1)
Parks and ponds	461	(1)
Give all to love	462	(1)
Bacchus	463	(2)
Days	465	(1)
Merlin: II	466	(2)
Ode to Beauty	468	(3)
Limits Experience	471	(1)
The Past	472	(1)
Terminus	473	(2)
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817--1862)	475	(12)
The Old Marlborough Road	475	(2)
What's the railroad to me?	477	(1)
I am a parcel of vain strivings tied	477	(2)
Who sleeps by day and walks by night	479	(1)
I was born upon thy bank, river	479	(1)
On the Sun Coming Out in the Afternoon	479	(1)
The moon now rises to her absolute rule	479	(1)
To a Marsh Hawk in Spring Great Friend	480	(1)
At midnight's hour I raised my head	481	(1)
Among the worst of men that ever lived	482	(1)
Tall Ambrosia	482	(1)
Forever in my dream and in my morning thought	483	(1)
For though the caves were rabbited	484	(1)
I was made erect and lone	484	(1)
To the Mountains	485	(1)
Between the traveller and the setting sun	485	(1)
I'm thankful that my life doth not deceive	486	(1)
WILLIAM BARNES (1801--1886)	487	(9)
Zun-zet	487	(1)
The Clote (Water-Lily)	488	(1)
The Wind at the Door	489	(1)
The Lost Little Sister	490	(1)
My Love's Guardian Angel	491	(1)
To Me	492	(2)
Tokens	494	(1)
The Fall	494	(2)
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892)	496	(13)
Ichabod	496	(1)
For Righteousness' Sake	497	(1)
From Among the Hills: Prelude	498	(5)
The Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk	503	(3)
The Brewing of Soma	506	(3)
JONES VERY (1813-1880)	509	(2)
Yourself	509	(1)
The hand and foot	509	(1)
Thy Brother's Blood	510	(1)
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849)	511	(6)
From Death's Jest-Book
Dirge: If thou wilt ease thine heart	511	(1)
Song: Old Adam, the carrion crow	511	(1)
Epithalamia	512	(1)
Dirge: The swallow leaves her nest	513	(1)
From Torrismond: How many times do I love thee dear	514	(1)
Dream-Pedlary	514	(3)
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809--1849)	517	(10)
The City in the Sea	517	(2)
The Sleeper	519	(2)
The Valley of Unrest	521	(1)
The Haunted Palace	522	(1)
To Helen	523	(1)
Israfel	524	(2)
From childhood's hour	526	(1)
Index of Titles and First Lines	527	(8)
Biographical Notes	535