Links to Individual Romantic Period Authors

General Sources:

Literary e-text sources on major authors (maintained by Jack Lynch)

Voice of the Shuttle--a great listing of sites for study of Romanticism

Romantic Circles--a literary journal devoted to the Romantics

Web Concordances to the Major Poets and their Works

Images of Romantic Poets, click here.

• Joanna Baillie

• William Blake

• Robert Burns's works

• George Gordon, The International Lord Byron, George Gordon Society
  • U of Toronto official site for his poetry

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Imagination in Coleridge
  • poetry and prose selections
  • The Coleridge Companion (a full book-length study on the net)
  • Dictionary of Coleridgean terms
  • Essay on "The Conversation Poems"
  • The AEeolian Harp (and 19th-century dictionary definitions)
  • "Fears in Solitude"(definitions and criticism)
  • Criticism and background information on "Frost at Midnight"
  • "Limbo"
  • "Eclipsed by the Pleasure Dome. . ." an essay by David S. Hogsette on "Kubla Khan"
  • The Rime with illustrations 1858 edition. This takes time to load, but worth it. You should click on the list of Parts located to the left of your screen.
  • The Rime Text only 1823 edition
  • Important Events in the Life of Coleridge
  • Selected scholarly opinions/abstracts about The Rime
  • Piranesi: a visual paradigm for the Romantic Period
    • Piranesi: Coleridge and DeQuincey's ideas
  • photographs and engravings
  • Kubla Khan analysis
  • The Biographia Literaria
  • Biographia Literaria--
    "The aim of the present edition of Coleridge's Biographia literaria is to furnish an accurate reprint of the edition of 1817, with such additional matter as may contribute to a fuller understanding of the text."--
  • Coleridge's theory on Imagination
  • New Views for Coleridge's vivid Imagination (from the Times via NASSR)
  • Article about Coleridge's definition of Symbol and Allegory

• Thomas De Quincey
  • The best in-progress site for De Quincey studies
  • basic information about his biography and works
  • A maze-like Hypertext of Confessions--with illustrations
  • A wonderfully typical DeQuinceyan visit--fully annotated
  • palimpsest--De Quincey's own definition
  • Join a chat room about DeQuincey
  • critical article about the reception of DeQuincey's work by Robert Morrison

• William Hazlitt:
  • A new selection of Hazlitt's works with commentary by Duncan Wu
  • Charles Mahoney (U. Connecticut, Storrs), "Periodical Indigestion: Hazlitt's Unpalatable Politics"(1996) (Romantic Praxis / Romantic Circles)

• John Keats
  • Poetical Works (1884)
  • from a course on John Keats (Stanford U)
  • Sonnets (Sonnet Central)
  • Web Concordances: John Keats - The Odes of 1819
  • "To Solitude" (British Library)
  • Interactive site for Keats's poetry
  • Keats's tracing of the Sosibios Vase (not the Grecian urn)
  • Keats's letter describing his brief visit with Coleridge
  • John Spencer Hill's bibliography of major twentieth-century writings about Keats

• Charles Lamb
  • Lamb's Elia Essay and photograph
  • Sonnets

• Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L) 1802-1838 (compiled by Dr. Glenn Dibert-Himes, Sheffield, England)
• Ann Radcliffe: poems

• Sir Walter Scott: Selected Waverly novels

• Mary W. Shelley, a site for the study of Frankenstein
  • Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin chronology and resource page
  • The Last Man, a hypertext version with outstanding images and sound (maintained by Steven E. Jones)

• Percy Bysshe Shelley (home page at U of Virginia).
  • another Shelley Home Page
  • P. B. Shelley
    • Chronology
    • Adonais and critical comments
    • The Triumph of Life

• Younger Romantics bibliography

• Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin)

• William Wordsworth
  • Wordworth Variorum Archive
    • Bartelby's Wordsworth's texts (1850 Prelude)
    • 1798-99-- Two Part Prelude
    • 1805 Prelude and the 1850 version
  • The Borderers: an e-text of the 1796-97 version
  • Wordsworth's Gothic Readings
  • Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary: a hypertext site, including parallel-frame views of the text and page-facsimiles, created by Ronald Tetreault of Dalhousie University and Bruce Graver Providence College
  • John Dawson's Lake District Walks--small to panoramic photos--wonderful
  • "Tintern Abbey"
  • William's life in and the Lake District--hypertext
  • Dove Cottage library and museum
  • The Prelude--a wonderful course and hypertext
  • Notes on composition and critical material on The Prelude
  • Notes by Wordsworth to The Lyrical Ballads
  • Photographs of the Lake District--from John Dawson's Lake District Walks
  • an article,"Wordsworth's Poetry and Stuart's Newspapers: 1797-1803" by R. S. WOOF
  • Article on "Tautology and Imaginative Vision in Wordsworth" by Duncan Wu
  • Article, "Coleridge, Language, and Imagination" by Nicholas Reid

Frederick L. Burwick's essay on Teaching Drama

More on teaching Romantic Drama--reference to Joanna Baillie

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