MA Reading List
British Romantic Writing (1785-1830)
A reliable source of abridgements and excerpts is “The Romantic Period” in volume 2 of The Norton
Anthology of English Literature, 8th ed. Issued separately as vol. D.
William Blake:
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (selections)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Mary Wollstonecraft:
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (selections)
William Wordsworth:
Lyrical Ballads (selections)
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind (excerpts)
Sir Walter Scott:
one novel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
Christabel
Frost at Midnight
Dejection: An Ode, Biographia Literaria (selections)
Lord Byron:
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (excerpts)
Don Juan (excerpts)
Percy Shelley:
Mont Blanc
Ozymandias
Stanzas Written in Dejection – December 1818, near Naples
Ode to the West Wind
Prometheus Unbound (excerpts)
Adonais
John Keats:
Ode to Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
To Autumn
Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein
Jane Austen:
two novels