In semesters past I have assigned these materials. I will not do so now. But I do want to make key selections of English Romantic verse available for curious and motivated students. Please feel free to read and discuss these poems, if you like; but, technically, they are not on the syllabus.
If you find you loathe this stuff, please note that these pieces contrast markedly with almost everything else we will be reading this semester.
p.s. Look for the print button on the upper-right corner of the web pages hosting each poem. This may make your life easier. Also, notice that the Wordsworth poems are the longest and (by our standards) most ponderous. Things will get much briefer and lighter as you move on to the other Romantic poets.
William Wordsworth
(1770 – 1850)
Tintern Abbey
Intimations of Immortality
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772 – 1834)
Frost at Midnight
Kubla Khan
This Lime Tree Bower My Prison
John Keats
(1795 – 1821)
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
Ode to a Nightingale
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792 – 1822)
Ozymandias
Mutability
To Night
Kubernesis 