"M. H. Abrams, founding editor Emeritus, class of 1916 Professor of English Emeritus, Cornell University"--Preliminary page.

Includes bibliographical references and index

v. D. The Romantic Period (1785-1832) Balladry and ballad revivals: Lord Randall -- Bonny Barbara Allan -- The wife of Usher's Well -- The three ravens -- Sir Patrick Spens -- The daemon-lover.

The mouse's petition -- An inventory of furniture in Dr. Priestley's study -- A summer evening's meditation -- Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the rejection of the Bill for abolishing the slave trade -- The rights of women -- To a little invisible being who is expected soon to become visible -- Washing day -- The caterpillar -- Elegiac sonnets: Written at the close of spring -- To sleep -- To night -- Written at the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex -- On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea, because it was frequented by a lunatic -- The sea view -- The swallow -- Beachy head -- January, 1795 -- London's summer morning -- The poor singing dame -- The haunted beach -- The poet's garret -- To the poet Coleridge.

The slave trade and the literature of abolition: Faith's review and expectation / John Newton -- Essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species / Thomas Clarkson -- The negro's complaint / William Cowper -- The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / Olaudah Equiano -- The sorrows of Yamba / Hannah More and Eaglefield Smith -- On the slave trade / Samuel Coleridge -- Slave trade / William Cobbett.

All religions are one -- There is no natural religion -- Songs of innocence -- Songs of experience -- The book of Thel -- Visions of the Daughters of Albion -- The marriage of heaven and hell -- A song of liberty -- Blake's notebook -- And did those feet -- Two letters on sight and vision -- Green grow the rashes -- Holy Willie's prayer -- To a mouse -- To a louse -- Auld lang syne -- Tam o' shanter: a tale -- Such a parcel of rogues in a nation -- Robert Bruce's march to Bannockburn -- A red, red rose -- Song: for a' that and a' that.

The revolution controversy and the "Spirit of the age": Discourse on the love of our country / Richard Price -- Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke -- A vindication of the rights of men / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Rights of man / Thomas Paine -- Prints and propaganda / James Gillray.

A vindication of the rights of woman -- The dedication to M. Talleyrand-Perigord -- Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark -- The Irish incognito -- Lyrical ballads: Good Blake and Harry Gill -- Simon Lee -- We are seven -- Lines written in early spring -- Expostulation and reply -- The tables turned -- The thorn -- Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey -- Strange fits of passion have I known -- She dwelt among the untrodden ways -- Three years she grew -- A slumber did my spirit seal -- I travelled among unknown men -- Nutting -- The ruined cottage -- Michael -- Resolution and independence -- I wandered lonely as a cloud -- My heart leaps up -- Ode: intimations of immortality -- The solitary reaper -- Elegiac stanzas -- Sonnets -- The prelude: The crossing of the alps -- The climbing of Snowdon -- The 1805 prelude -- The Alfoxden journal -- The grasmere journals -- Grasmere -- Thoughts on my sick bed -- The lay of the last minstrel -- Proud Maisie -- Redgauntlet -- Wandering Willie's tale -- The eolian harp -- This lime tree bower my prison -- The rime of the ancient mariner -- Kubla Khan -- Christabel -- Frost at midnight -- Dejection: an ode -- The pains of sleep -- To William Wordsworth -- Epitaph -- Biographia Literaria -- Lectures on Shakespeare -- The statesman's manual -- Specimens of table talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- On the tragedies of Shakespeare -- Detached thoughts on books and reading -- Old China -- Love and Friendship -- Plan of a novel, according to hints from various quarters -- Confessions of an English opium eater.

The Gothic and development of mass readership: The castle of Otranto -- On the pleasure derived from objects of terror; with Sir Bertrand, a fragment -- Vathek -- Romance of the forest -- The mysteries of Udolpho --The monk -- Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos -- She walks in beauty -- Darkness -- So, we'll go no more a roving --Childe Harold's pilgrimage -- Manfred -- Don Juan -- The vision of judgment -- On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year -- Letters -- Mutability -- To Wordsworth -- Alastor; or, the spirit of solitude -- Mont blanc -- Hymn to intellectual beauty --Ozymandias -- On love -- Stanzas written in dejection - December 1818, near Naples -- The mask of anarchy -- England in 1819 -- To Sidmouth and Castlereagh -- Ode to the west wind -- Prometheus unbound -- The cloud -- To a sky-lark -- To night -- O world, O life, O time -- Chorus from Hellas -- Adonais -- When the lamp is shattered -- To Jane -- A defence of poetry -- The nightingale's nest -- Pastoral poesy -- The lament of the swordy well -- Mouse's nest -- A vision -- I am -- An invite to eternity -- Clock a clay -- The peasant poet -- England's dead -- Casabianca -- The homes of England -- Corinne at the Capitol -- Properzia Rossi -- Indian woman's death song -- A spirit's return -- On first looking into Chapman's Homer -- Sleep and poetry -- On seeing the Elgin marbles -- Endymion: a poetic romance -- On sitting down to read King Lear once again -- When I have fears that I may cease to be -- To Homer -- The eve of St. Agnes -- Why did I laugh tonight? No voice will tell -- Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art -- La bell dame sans merci: a ballad -- On fame -- Sonnet to sleep -- Ode to psyche -- Ode to nightingale -- Ode on a grecian urn -- Ode on melancholy -- Ode on indolence -- Lamia -- To Autumn -- The fall of Hyperion: a dream -- This living hand, now warm and capable -- Letters -- The last man -- The mortal immortal -- Love's last lesson -- Lines of life -- The fairy of fountains.