Romantic Literature

English Department - Romantic Literature

 

Reading List  2009-2010 – Romantic Literature

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Fiction 

Ann Radcliffe           

            The Italian 

Walter Scott           

            “Wandering Willie’s Tale”* 

Thomas De Quincey           

            “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth”

 

Poetry

  James Macpherson 

            “Fragments”*** 

William Blake 

            “Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience”

            (Please ensure you read the whole collection and not just extracts available in anthologies.) 

William Wordsworth           

            “The Ruined Cottage”*

            “Elegaic Stanzas”* 

S.T. Coleridge 

            “Kubla Khan”* 

P. B. Shelley 

            “Adonais”* 

Felecia Hemens 

            “The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England”* 

John Keats 

            “The Fall of Hyperion”* 

Byron 

            “Stanzas written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa”*

            “January 22^nd. Missolonghi”*

 

Drama 

George Colman the Younger 

             Blue-Beard; or Female Curiosity**

 

Secondary Works

Ted Underwood. “Romantic Historicism and the Afterlife.” PMLA, Vol. 117, No. 2 (Mar., 2002), pp. 237-251.

Yael Shapira. Where the Bodies Are Hidden: Ann Radcliffe's 'Delicate' Gothic. Eighteenth Century Fiction 18.4 (2006) 453-476. 

 

 

* Note: This work is available in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth edition, Volume D, The Romantic Period. 

**Note: This work is available in The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama. Jeffrey Cox and Michael Gamer eds. (2003). 

***Note: The two assigned fragments are available in Eighteenth-Century Poetry: The Annotated Anthology. Eds. David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. (pgs. 408-411).