1

Introduction
General Introduction: The Age of Romanticism

2

Blake
Blake: Introduction
Chimney Sweepers from Songs of Experience and Innocence
London
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
A Song of Liberty

3

Wordsworth
Wordsworth: introduction
Tintern Abbey
The Ruined Cottage
The Prelude
The Preface to Lyrical Ballads
The Prelude I:
The PreludeII: "Spots of Time"
The Prelude III: "a Hunger-bitten girl"
from The Preface to Lyrical Ballads

4

Coleridge
Coleridge: Introduction
Biographia Literaria
Kubla Khan

5

Byron
Byron: introduction
Byronic Hero
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto I & II
Canto III
Canto IV

6

Shelley
Shelley: Introduction
Shelley's Defence of Poetry
Adonais

7

Keats
Keats: Introduction
Keats's ideas of poetry from his letters
Ode to a Nightingale
"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art"