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Visionary gleam : forty books from the Romantic period

The age of English Romanticism began with the French Revolution and ended with the Reform Bill of 1832. The key works of the period share an assumption that change in the political system is possible. Wordsworth comments on forty such books
Print Book, English, 1993
Woodstock Books, London, 1993
bibliographies
xii, 243 pages ; 23 cm
9781854771261, 1854771264
30671601
William Gilpin: Observations of the river Wye 1782
Robert Burns: Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect 1786
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The sorrows of Werter 1789 (1779)
Charlotte Smith: Elegaic sonnets 1789 (1784)
William Lisle Bowles: Fourteen sonnets 1789
Erasmus Darwin: The loves of the plants 1789
Richard Price: A discourse on the love of our country 1789
Thomas Paine: The rights of man 1791
Thomas Holcroft: The road to ruin 1792
William Frend: Peace and union 1793
William Godwin: An enquiry concerning political justice 1793
Coleridge and Southey: The fall of Robespierre 1794
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Conciones ad populum 1795
Charles Lamb: Rosamund Gray 1798
Canning and Frere: Poetry of the anti-Jacobin 1799
Robert Southey: Thalaba the destroyer 1801
Walter Scott: The lay of the last minstrel 1805
Richard Mant: The simpliciad 1808
Thomas Campbell: Gertrude of Wyoming 1809
Mary Tighe: Psyche 1811(1805)
William Wordsworth: The excursion 1814
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Christobel 1816
Charles robert Maturin: Bertram 1816
Robert Owen: A new view of society 1817 (1813)
Hazlitt and Hunt: The round table 1817
Thomas Love Peacock: Nightmare abbey 1818
John Keats: Endymion 1818
John Hookham Frere: Whistlecraft 1818
Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Cenci 1819
William Wordsworth: Peter Bell 1819
Lord Byron: Don Juan 1819
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais 1821
William Wordsworth: A description of the lakes 1822
Charles Lamb: Elia 1823
William Hazlitt: Liber amoris 1823
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Posthumous poems 1824
John Clare: The shepherd's calendar 1827
Felicia Hemans: Records of woman 1828
Alfred Tennyson: Poems, chiefly lyrical 1830
Thomas De Quincey: Klosterheim 1832