IV. The Romantic Period (ca. 1798-1837)
Representative works including:

  • “Scots, Wha Hae” and “A Man’s a Man for A’That”
    --Robert Burns (1759-1796)
  • from “Songs of Innocence,” “The Lamb,” and “The Tyger”
    --William Blake (1757-1827)
  • from Lyrical Ballads —William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan
    --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
  • “She Walks in Beauty”—George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
  • “Ozymandias”—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
  • “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
    --John Keats (1795-1821)





Sites That You May Find Useful

Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
TCG's Wordsworth Page
The William Blake Page
S. T. Coleridge & the Internet
Poems (emphasizing Romanticism)
Burns Country - the official Robert Burns site
Keats-Shelley Journal Links
The Victorian Web Overview
Victorian Literature Overview
Links to Other Victorian Sites
TIMELINE
Romantic Chronology (Home Page)


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