English Department - Romantic Literature
Reading List 2011-2012 – Romantic Literature
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Fiction
Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
William Godwin
Caleb Williams
Elizabeth Hamilton
Letters of a Hindoo Rajah
Poetry
Robert Burns
“For a’ that and a’ that”**
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
William Wordsworth
“Michael, A Pastoral Poem”**
“To Toussaint L’ouverture”**
“I Griev’d for Buonaparte”**
“London, 1802”**
Coleridge
“The Pains of Sleep”**
“The Nightingale”**
“Fears in Solitude”
Walter Scott
“The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Shelley
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”**
“Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon”
“The Cloud”
Byron
“Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte”**
“When We Two Parted”**
Keats
“Lamia”**
“Ode on Indolence”**
Felicia Hemans
“Joan of Arc, in Rheims””**
“Indian Woman’s Death Song”**
“The Two Homes”**
Drama
George Gordon, Lord Byron.
Cain
Non-Fiction Prose
Ottobah Cugoano
Extract from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species**
Mary Prince
Extract from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave**
Secondary Works
Anne Mellor, “Romanticism, Gender, and the Anxieties of Empire: An Introduction.” European Romantic Review 8, no. 2 (1997 Spring): p. 148-54*
Butler, Marilyn, “The Arts in an Age of Revolution 1760-1790.” (Chapter 1) Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries : English literature and its Background, 1760-1830. Oxford University Press, 1985.*
Bate, Jonathan, “The Place of Poetry.” (Chapter 8) The Song of the Earth. Harvard University Press, 2000.*
* On CLEo site for Seniors
**In Anne K. Mellor and Richard E. Matlak. British Literature 1780-1830. Harcourt, 1996. (note: this anthology is also on reserve).
