Michael O'Neill (born 1953 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English poet, and academic, specialising in the Romantic period and post-war poetry. A graduate of Exeter College, Oxford, O'Neill lectured at Durham University.

“It is a beautifully written and well-organized textbook, which will be of great value to undergraduates in English departments around the world…O’Neill and Callaghan are to be commended for the deft way they combine close reading and scholarship in these delightful essays” -- The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 98 (2019)

• ContentsAcknowledgements viiiPart 1 Introduction 1Part 2 Timeline of the Late Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period 21Part 3 Biographies 47Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 49Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 51William Blake (1757–1827) 54Robert Burns (1759–1796) 57Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 59John Clare (1793–1864) 61Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 63Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 66(James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 69John Keats (1795–1821) 72Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 74Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 77Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 80Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 82Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 85Robert Southey (1774–1843) 87William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 90Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 93Part 4 Readings 95First]Generation Romantic Poets 95Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘Epistle to William Wilberforce,  Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for ­Abolishing the Slave Trade’; ‘The Rights of Woman’; Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem 97Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets 101Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head 107Ann Yearsley, ‘Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave]trade’; ‘Bristol Elegy’ 110William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience 115William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; The Book of Urizen ; ‘The Mental Traveller’ 124Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon 132Robert Burns, Lyrics 137William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 144William Wordsworth, ‘Resolution and Independence’;  ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’; ‘Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested  by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont’; ‘Surprized by Joy’ 152William Wordsworth, The Prelude 163William Wordsworth, The Excursion 174Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversation Poems: ‘The Eolian Harp’,  ‘This Lime]Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at ­Midnight’,  and ‘Dejection: An Ode’ 179Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ;  Kubla Khan; ‘The Pains of Sleep’; Christabel 187Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehama 196Second]Generation Romantic Poets 203Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies 205Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini 211Lord Byron, Lara ; ‘When We Two Parted’; ‘Stanzas to Augusta’; Manfred 215Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 223Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos 1–4 232Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab ; Alastor;  Laon and Cythna [The Revolt of Islam] 242Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’;  ‘Mont Blanc’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘Ode to the West Wind’;  the late poems to Jane Williams 251Percy Bysshe Shelley, ­Prometheus Unbound; Adonais;  The Triumph of Life 260John Keats, Endymion ; ‘Sleep and Poetry’; The Sonnets 268John Keats, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion 277John Keats, The 1820 Volume 284Third]Generation Romantic Poets 295John Clare: Lyrics 297Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems 304Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ‘Love’s Last Lesson’; ‘Lines of Life’;  ‘Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love]Letter’; ‘Sappho’s Song’; ‘A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk.  By Stewardson’ 311Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death’s Jest]Book and Lyrics 318Part 5 Further Reading 325General Critical Reading 327Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 328Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 328William Blake (1757–1827) 329Robert Burns (1759–1796) 329Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 329John Clare (1793–1864) 330Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 330Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 331(James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 331John Keats (1795–1821) 331Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 331Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 332Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 332Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 332Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 333Robert Southey (1774–1843) 333William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 333Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 334Index

Michael O'Neill (born 1953 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English poet, and academic, specialising in the Romantic period and post-war poetry. A graduate of Exeter College, Oxford, O'Neill lectured at Durham University.

“It is a beautifully written and well-organized textbook, which will be of great value to undergraduates in English departments around the world…O’Neill and Callaghan are to be commended for the deft way they combine close reading and scholarship in these delightful essays” -- The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 98 (2019)

• ContentsAcknowledgements viiiPart 1 Introduction 1Part 2 Timeline of the Late Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period 21Part 3 Biographies 47Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 49Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 51William Blake (1757–1827) 54Robert Burns (1759–1796) 57Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 59John Clare (1793–1864) 61Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 63Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 66(James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 69John Keats (1795–1821) 72Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 74Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 77Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 80Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 82Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 85Robert Southey (1774–1843) 87William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 90Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 93Part 4 Readings 95First]Generation Romantic Poets 95Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘Epistle to William Wilberforce,  Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for ­Abolishing the Slave Trade’; ‘The Rights of Woman’; Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem 97Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets 101Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head 107Ann Yearsley, ‘Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave]trade’; ‘Bristol Elegy’ 110William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience 115William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; The Book of Urizen ; ‘The Mental Traveller’ 124Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon 132Robert Burns, Lyrics 137William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 144William Wordsworth, ‘Resolution and Independence’;  ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’; ‘Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested  by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont’; ‘Surprized by Joy’ 152William Wordsworth, The Prelude 163William Wordsworth, The Excursion 174Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversation Poems: ‘The Eolian Harp’,  ‘This Lime]Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at ­Midnight’,  and ‘Dejection: An Ode’ 179Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ;  Kubla Khan; ‘The Pains of Sleep’; Christabel 187Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehama 196Second]Generation Romantic Poets 203Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies 205Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini 211Lord Byron, Lara ; ‘When We Two Parted’; ‘Stanzas to Augusta’; Manfred 215Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 223Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos 1–4 232Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab ; Alastor;  Laon and Cythna [The Revolt of Islam] 242Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’;  ‘Mont Blanc’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘Ode to the West Wind’;  the late poems to Jane Williams 251Percy Bysshe Shelley, ­Prometheus Unbound; Adonais;  The Triumph of Life 260John Keats, Endymion ; ‘Sleep and Poetry’; The Sonnets 268John Keats, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion 277John Keats, The 1820 Volume 284Third]Generation Romantic Poets 295John Clare: Lyrics 297Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems 304Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ‘Love’s Last Lesson’; ‘Lines of Life’;  ‘Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love]Letter’; ‘Sappho’s Song’; ‘A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk.  By Stewardson’ 311Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death’s Jest]Book and Lyrics 318Part 5 Further Reading 325General Critical Reading 327Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 328Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 328William Blake (1757–1827) 329Robert Burns (1759–1796) 329Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 329John Clare (1793–1864) 330Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 330Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 331(James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 331John Keats (1795–1821) 331Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 331Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 332Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 332Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 332Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 333Robert Southey (1774–1843) 333William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 333Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 334Index

Michael O'Neill (born 1953 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English poet, and academic, specialising in the Romantic period and post-war poetry. A graduate of Exeter College, Oxford, O'Neill lectured at Durham University.

“It is a beautifully written and well-organized textbook, which will be of great value to undergraduates in English departments around the world…O’Neill and Callaghan are to be commended for the deft way they combine close reading and scholarship in these delightful essays” -- The Year’s Work in English Studies, Volume 98 (2019)

• ContentsAcknowledgements viiiPart 1 Introduction 1Part 2 Timeline of the Late Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period 21Part 3 Biographies 47Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 49Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 51William Blake (1757–1827) 54Robert Burns (1759–1796) 57Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 59John Clare (1793–1864) 61Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 63Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 66(James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 69John Keats (1795–1821) 72Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 74Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 77Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 80Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 82Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 85Robert Southey (1774–1843) 87William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 90Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 93Part 4 Readings 95First]Generation Romantic Poets 95Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘Epistle to William Wilberforce,  Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for ­Abolishing the Slave Trade’; ‘The Rights of Woman’; Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem 97Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets 101Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head 107Ann Yearsley, ‘Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave]trade’; ‘Bristol Elegy’ 110William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience 115William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; The Book of Urizen ; ‘The Mental Traveller’ 124Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon 132Robert Burns, Lyrics 137William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 144William Wordsworth, ‘Resolution and Independence’;  ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’; ‘Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested  by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont’; ‘Surprized by Joy’ 152William Wordsworth, The Prelude 163William Wordsworth, The Excursion 174Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversation Poems: ‘The Eolian Harp’,  ‘This Lime]Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at ­Midnight’,  and ‘Dejection: An Ode’ 179Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ;  Kubla Khan; ‘The Pains of Sleep’; Christabel 187Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehama 196Second]Generation Romantic Poets 203Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies 205Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini 211Lord Byron, Lara ; ‘When We Two Parted’; ‘Stanzas to Augusta’; Manfred 215Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 223Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos 1–4 232Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab ; Alastor;  Laon and Cythna [The Revolt of Islam] 242Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’;  ‘Mont Blanc’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘Ode to the West Wind’;  the late poems to Jane Williams 251Percy Bysshe Shelley, ­Prometheus Unbound; Adonais;  The Triumph of Life 260John Keats, Endymion ; ‘Sleep and Poetry’; The Sonnets 268John Keats, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion 277John Keats, The 1820 Volume 284Third]Generation Romantic Poets 295John Clare: Lyrics 297Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems 304Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ‘Love’s Last Lesson’; ‘Lines of Life’;  ‘Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love]Letter’; ‘Sappho’s Song’; ‘A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk.  By Stewardson’ 311Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death’s Jest]Book and Lyrics 318Part 5 Further Reading 325General Critical Reading 327Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) 328Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 328William Blake (1757–1827) 329Robert Burns (1759–1796) 329Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) 329John Clare (1793–1864) 330Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 330Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) 331(James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 331John Keats (1795–1821) 331Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 331Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 332Mary Robinson (1758–1800) 332Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 332Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) 333Robert Southey (1774–1843) 333William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 333Ann Yearsley (1753–1806) 334Index