According to Hints from Various Quarters 535
WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778-1830) 537 On Gusto 538 My First Acquaintance with Poets 541
THOMAS DE QUINCEY (1785-1859) 554 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 556 Preliminary Confessions 556 [The Prostitute Ann] 556 Introduction to the Pains of Opium 559 [The Malay] 559 The Pains of Opium 560 [Opium Reveries and Dreams] 560 On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 569 Alexander Pope 572 [The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power] 572
THE GOTHIC AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MASS READERSHIP 577
HORACE WALPOLE: From The Castle of Otranto 579
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ANNA LETITIA AIKIN (later BARBAULD) and JOHN AIKIN: On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment 582
WILLIAM BECKFORD: From Vathek 587
ANN RADCLIFFE 592 From The Romance of the Forest 592 From The Mysteries of Udolpho 594
MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS: From The Monk 595
ANONYMOUS: Terrorist Novel Writing 600
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 602 From Review of The Monk by Matthew Lewis 602 From Biographia Literaria 606
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824) 607 Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos 611 She walks in beauty 612 They say that Hope is happiness 613 When we two parted 613 Stanzas for Music 614 Darkness 614 So, we'll go no more a roving 616
CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE 617
Canto 1 617 ['Sin's Long Labyrinth'] 617 Canto 3 619 ['Once More Upon the Waters'] 619 [Waterloo] 622 [Napoleon] 625 [Switzerland] 628
Manfred 635
DON JUAN 669
Fragment 670 Canto 1 670 [Juan and Donna Julia] 670 Canto 2 697 [The Shipwreck] 697 [Juan and Haidee] 704 Canto 3 718 [Juan and Haidee] 718 Canto 4 725 [Juan and Haidee] 725
Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa 734 January 22nd. Missolonghi 735
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LETTERS 736
To Thomas Moore (Jan. 28, 1817) 736 To Douglas Kinnaird (Oct. 26, 1819) 738 To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Apr. 26,1821) 740
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) 741 Mutability 744 To Wordsworth 744 Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude 745 Mont Blanc 762 Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 766 Ozymandias 768 Stanzas Written in Dejection?December 1818, near Naples 769 A Song: 'Men of England' 770 England in 1819 771 To Sidmouth and Castlereagh 771 To William Shelley 772 Ode to the West Wind 772 Prometheus Unbound 775 Preface 775 Act 1 779 Act 2 802 Scene 4 802 Scene 5 806 Act 3 809 Scene 1 809 From Scene 4 811 From Act 4 814 The Cloud 815 To a Sky-Lark 817 To Night 819 To [Music, when soft voices die] 820 O World, O Life, O Time 820 Chorus from Hellas 821 The world's great age 821 Adonais 822 When the lamp is shattered 836 To Jane (The keen stars were twinkling) 836 From A Defence of Poetry 837
JOHN CLARE (1793-1864) 850 The Nightingale's Nest 851 Pastoral Poesy 853 [Mouse's Nest] 856 A Vision 856 I Am 857 An Invite to Eternity 858 Clock a Clay 859 The Peasant Poet 859 Song [I hid my love] 860 Song [I peeled bits o' straws] 860 From Autobiographical Fragments 86 1
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FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793-1835) England's Dead 865 The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England 867 Casabianca 868 The Homes of England 870 Corinne at the Capitol 871 A Spirit's Return 872
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 880 Sleep and Poetry 881 [O for Ten Years] 881 On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 883 Endymion: A Poetic Romance 883 Preface 883 Book 1 884 [A Thing of Beauty] 884 [The 'Pleasure Thermometer'] 885 On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 887 When I have fears that I may cease to be 888 To Homer 888 The Eve of St. Agnes 888 Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell 898 Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art 898 La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad 899 Sonnet to Sleep 900 Ode to Psyche 901 Ode to a Nightingale 903 Ode on a Grecian Urn 905 Ode on Melancholy 906 Ode on Indolence 908 Lamia 909 To Autumn 925 The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream 926 This living hand, now warm and capable 939
LETTERS 940
To Benjamin Bailey (Nov. 22, 1817) 940 To George and Thomas Keats (Dec. 21, 27 [?], 1817) 942 To John Hamilton Reynolds (Feb. 3, 1818) 943 To John Taylor (Feb. 27, 1818) 944 To John Hamilton Reynolds (May 3, 1818) 945 To Richard Woodhouse (Oct. 27, 1818) 947 To George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14-May 3, 1819) 948 To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819) 952 To Percy Bysshe Shelley (Aug. 16, 1820) 953 To Charles Brown (Nov. 30, 1820) 954
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY (1797-1851) The Last Man: Introduction 958 The Mortal Immortal 961
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (1802-1838) The Proud Ladye 971
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