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    here are many anthologies large and small of British (or “English”) Romantic
    poetry that will contain most of the shorter poems discussed in this book
    and some of the longer ones. For particular authors the following editions are
    recommended.

    Barbauld

    McCarthy, William and Elizabeth Krat, eds. Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Selected
    Poetry and Prose. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001.

    Blake

    Erdman, David V., ed. he Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, “newly
    revised edition.” Berkeley : University of California Press, 1982. his is the
    standard edition, but it lacks most of the designs.
    For the poetry with the designs, in accurate color, the best choice is the six-
    volume edition of Blake’s Illuminated Books, under the general editorship
    of David Bindman, published by the William Blake Trust and Princeton
    University Press, 1998. he volumes include reading texts and extensive
    commentaries.
    he best student edition is Mary Lynn Johnson and John E. Grant, eds., Blake’s
    Poetry and Designs, 2nd edn. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. he Norton
    Critical Edition has most of the engraved or “illuminated” texts and many
    designs in black and white (a few in color), with notes at the bottom and
    critical essays in the back.
    he William Blake Archive, hosted by the University of Virginia, is a free,
    easily navigable, and ever-growing digital collection of Blake’s visual works.
    www.blakearchive.org

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    Bürger

    Bürger’s poem “Lenore,” translated by William Taylor of Norwich under the


    title “Lenora,” may be found at the back of Michael Gamer and Dahlia
    Porter, eds., Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1800. Peterborough, Ontario:
    Broadview Press, 2008. A slightly altered version, under the title “Ellenore,”
    is in Jerome J. McGann, ed., he New Oxford Book of Romantic Period
    Verse. Oxford University Press, 1993. Sir Walter Scott’s translation may
    be found in James Reed, ed., Sir Walter Scott: Selected Poems. New York:
    Routledge (Fyield Books), 2003. See also Michael Ferber, ed., European
    Romantic Poetry. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005.

    Burns

    Kinsley, James, ed. he Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, 2nd edn. Oxford
    University Press, 1971.
    McGuirk, Carol, ed. Robert Burns: Selected Poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin,
    1993. A well-edited selection.

    Byron

    Stefan, T. G., E. Stefan, and W. W. Pratt, eds. Lord Byron: Don Juan, rev. edn.
    Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
    Wolfson, Susan J. and Peter J. Manning, eds. Lord Byron: Selected Poems.
    Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.

    Coleridge

    Keach, William, ed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: he Complete Poems.


    Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997.

    Keats

    Stillinger, Jack, ed. John Keats: he Complete Poems. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
    University Press, 1978.

    Landon

    McGann, Jerome J. and Daniel Riess, eds. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected
    Writings. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1997.

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    Moore

    Godley, A. D., ed. he Poetical Works of homas Moore. Oxford University


    Press, 1929.

    “Ossian” (James Macpherson)

    Gaskill, Howard, ed. he Poems of Ossian, and Related Works. Edinburgh


    University Press, 1996.

    Robinson

    Pascoe, Judith, ed. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems. Peterborough, Ontario:


    Broadview Press, 1999.

    Scott

    Scott’s Marmion may be found in James Reed, ed., Sir Walter Scott: Selected
    Poems. New York: Routledge (Fyield Books), 2003.

    Shelley

    he best one-volume selection is Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat, eds.,


    Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, 2nd edn (Norton Critical Edition). New York: W.
    W. Norton, 2002. Also very good is Zachary Leader and Michael O’Neill,
    eds., Percy Bysshe Shelley: he Major Works (Oxford World’s Classics).
    Oxford University Press, 2003.

    Smith

    Curran, Stuart, ed. he Poems of Charlotte Smith. Oxford University Press,


    1993.

    Williams

    here does not seem to be a modern edition of Helen Maria Williams’ poems.
    Her poem “To Dr. Moore” may be found in Andrew Ashield, ed., Romantic
    Women Poets 1770–1838. Manchester University Press, 1995. See also Neil

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    Fraistat and Susan S. Lanser, eds., Letters Written in France. Peterborough,


    Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001.

    Wordsworth

    Gamer, Michael and Dahlia Porter, eds. Lyrical Ballads: 1798 and 1800.
    Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2008. Well annotated, with reviews
    and other contextual material in the back.
    Gill, Stephen, ed. William Wordsworth: he Major Works (including he
    Prelude) (Oxford World’s Classics). Oxford University Press, 2008.
    Levin, Susan M., ed. Dorothy Wordsworth (Longman Cultural Edition). New
    York: Pearson Longman, 2009. Contains selections from her journals,
    which oten prompted her brother to write a poem, as well as poems of
    her own.
    Wordsworth, Jonathan, M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill, eds. he Prelude:
    1799, 1805, 1850 (Norton Critical Edition). New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.
    Drats and fragments and critical essays in the back. Also good is Jonathan
    Wordsworth, ed., he Prelude: he Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850).
    Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995.

    Criticism

    he Cambridge Introductions to Literature series includes titles on Coleridge


    and Wordsworth (see the back of this book for the full list of titles).
    he Cambridge Companions to Literature series includes titles on Blake,
    Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth, as well as on British
    Romantic Poetry, (British) Romanticism, and English Literature 1740–
    1830. he titles are all collections of essays by diferent scholars. hough not
    exactly introductions, many of the essays in them will be helpful to readers
    new to their subjects.
    Also helpful is Duncan Wu, ed., A Companion to Romanticism (Oxford:
    Blackwell, 1998), with over ity short essays by various scholars.
    Abrams, M. H. Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic
    Literature. New York: W. W. Norton, 1971. A very important work, not to
    be missed. Centered on Wordsworth, it compares English and German
    Romantic themes and plots with each other and with their ultimate sources
    in Christian and Platonic philosophy.

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    Backgrounds and contexts

    Bainbridge, Simon, ed. Romanticism: A Sourcebook. Basingstoke: Palgrave


    Macmillan, 2008. A collection of key documents of the Romantic period
    about such areas as the French Revolution, women, the slave trade, science,
    and religion.
    Butler, Marilyn. Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and its
    Background, 1760–1830. Oxford University Press, 1982.
    Ferber, Michael. Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University
    Press, 2010. A brief account of the Europe-wide Romantic movement in
    literature, philosophy, music, and painting.
    Ford, Boris, ed. he Romantic Age in Britain. Vol. VI of he Cambridge Cultural
    History. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Sections on literature, ine arts,
    music, architecture, and other topics.
    Gaull, Marilyn. English Romanticism: he Human Context. New York: W. W.
    Norton, 1988. Chapters on the literary marketplace, children’s literature, the
    theater, the Gothic, painting, science, and other topics.
    Moore, Jane and John Strachan. Key Concepts in Romantic Literature.
    Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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