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English Romanticism — Poets

William Blake

William Blake

Biographical Info
Born: 1757
Died: 1827

Essay: The "Mind-forg'd Manacles" of Blake's Poetr

Blake's Illustrations

Major Works

Other Sources: Selected Bibliography

 


William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

Biographical Info
Born: 1770
Died: 1850

Major Works

  • Lyrical Ballads (1798, with Preface, 1800)
    • Tintern Abbey"
    • "We Are Seven"
    • "Lines Written In Early Spring"
  • The Prelude (1799, 1805, 1850)
  • Resolution and Independence (1807)
  • Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood (1807)

Other Sources: Selected Bibliography

 


Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Biographical Info
Born: 1772
Died: 1834

Major Works

  • Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800)
    • "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
  • Conversation Poems
    • "The Eolian Harp" (1795)
    • "This Lime-tree Bower My Prison" (1797)
    • "Frost At Midnight" (1798)
  • Kubla Khan (1798)
  • Christabel (1801)
  • Dejection: An Ode (1802)

Other Sources: Selected Bibliography

 


Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Biographical Info
Born: 1792
Died: 1822

Major Works

  • Mont Blanc (1817)
  • Hymn To Intellectual Beauty (1817)
  • Prometheus Unbound (1820)
  • Ode To The West Wind (1820)
  • To A Skylark (1820)
  • Ozymandias (1818)
  • Epipsychidon (1821)
  • Adonais: An Ellegy on the Death of John Keats (1821)
  • The Triumph of Life (1824)
  • A Defence of Poetry (1821 / 1840)

Other Sources: Selected Bibliography

 


George Gordon, Lord Byron

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Biographical Info
Born: 1788
Died: 1824

Major Works

  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818)
  • Manfred (1817)
  • Don Juan (1824)
  • She Walks In Beauty (1815)

Other Sources: Selected Bibliography

 


John Keats

John Keats

Biographical Info
Born: 1795
Died: 1821

Major Works

  • Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818)
  • Hyperion (1820)
  • The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (1820)
  • The Eve of St. Agnes (1820)
  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1820)
  • Ode to A Nightingale (1820)
  • Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)
  • Lamia (1819 / 1856)

Other Sources: Selected Bibliography