Poetry of Keats and Coleridge with Notes / Romantics / RI

9539 / 02: The English Romantic Period (1785-1832) The Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats

9539 / 02: The English Romantic Period (1785-1832) Section SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834) JOHN KEATS (1795-1823) CONTENTS Romantic Topical Concerns 4 Poet Biographies 5 How to use this booklet 8 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (SELECTED POEMS) Sonnet to the River Otter 9 The Keepsake 31 [Pantisocracy] 10 Ode to Tranquillity 32 The Eolian Harp 11 Dejection: An Ode 34 Sonnet Composed on a Journey Homeward 13 Answer to a Child’s Question 39 This Lime Tree Bower My Prison 14 The Pains of Sleep 40 France: An Ode 16 Human Life 42 Frost at Midnight 19 To Nature 44 The Nightingale 22 Work Without Hope 45 Kubla Khan: Or, A Vision in a Dream 25 Constancy to an Ideal Object 46 Love 27 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 48 Something Childish but Very Natural 30 2

9539 / 02: The English Romantic Period (1785-1832) Section JOHN KEATS (SELECTED POEMS) On Peace 67 Isabella, or The Pot of Basil 81 On Seeing the Elgin Marbles 68 The Eve of St Agnes 96 On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 69 La Belle Dame sans Merci 108 Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition 70 Lamia 111 To My Brothers 71 Bright Star! Would I were steadfast as thou art 129 O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell 72 Ode on a Grecian Urn 130 On the Sea 73 Ode on Melancholy 132 To Leigh Hunt, Esq. 74 Ode to a Nightingale 133 To a Lady Seen for a Few Moments … 75 Ode to Psyche 137 To Ailsa Rock 76 To Autumn 140 To Mrs Reynold’s Cat 77 To Fanny 142 When I have fears that I may cease to be 78 To Sleep 145 Hush, Hush! Tread Softly! 79 APPENDIX Timeline of Poetic Works 146 Glossary 147 What is a sonnet? 153 Romantic Art 154 3

9539 / 02: The English Romantic Period (1785-1832) Section ROMANTIC TOPICAL CONCERNS: Whilst the term Romanticism collects a broad range of writers from across the ideological spectrum, there are several topical features that recur in ‘Romantic’ literary texts. As you cover some of these topics, they may feel familiar to you: you should consider how much the foundations of popular culture (especially Western media) are rooted in Romantic concepts or ideas. - An emphasis on subjectivity, and strong personal or emotional experiences (sometimes as opposed to the scientific or the rational viewpoint). - Accompanying the previous poi