Mary, the Osier-Peeler by Mary Morgan [image of woman peeling osiers]

What does it feel like to be (or not to be) attached to a country or community, to have (or not to have) membership or citizenship, in ways that one cannot control? This volume will turn to Romantic poetics to consider how public feelings operate and circulate through the language of poetry. How does poetry mediate the politics and sociality of feeling? How can poetry register not just a...

Mary, the Osier-Peeler by Mary Morgan [image of woman peeling osiers]

This electronic edition makes the text of Mary Morgan's Mary, the Osier-Peeler available for the first time in over 200 years from the single known copy in the world. As an electronic edition in Romantic Circles, the poem is machine-readable, enabling access not only to those without physical access, but also to those with sight disabilities in the spirit of its twentieth-century...

For the past several years Romantic Circles Pedagogies Commons has published special volumes that speak to specific issues within romanticist pedagogy, such as “Romanticism and Technology,” “Teaching Global Romanticism,” or “Teaching the Romantic with the Contemporary.” For this 2-part volume, assembled during the COVID 19 crisis, we purposely stepped back and focused more broadly on essays that...
Anna Letitia Barbauld, whose collected works are in progress from Oxford University Press, was eminent as a poet, a path-breaking writer for children, a political writer during the years of the French Revolution and the Reform movement in Britain, and a woman of letters whose literary criticism went far to establish the modern canon of British novelists. Because most of her unpublished papers...

A Selection of Piano Recordings by Jennifer Castleton

On the 140th Anniversary of Parry’s Composition
and the Bicentenary of Percy Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound

Below is a snaphsot of some of the document genres represented at RC. A filterable list of all resources and genres is available here.

Fiction

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The Last Man, Edited by Steven E. Jones
The Last Man | 1826
Includes HTML, ASCII, and SGML versions, other works by Mary Shelley, works and excerpts from works cited by Shelley, bibliography, maps, images...
Alroy, Edited by Sheila A. Spector
Wondrous Tale of Alroy
This early novel, first published in 1833, represents Disraeli in "romantic mode." This version features the novel, an introduction, annotations, reprints of...
Fables Ancient and Modern, by Edward Baldwin, Esq. | 1805
This is the first installment of a complete critical edition of Godwin’s ten contributions to his Juvenile Library. It makes available for the first time since 1824 the first text that Godwin both...
Frankenstein, Edited by Stuart Curran
Frankenstein | 1818
This edition of Frankenstein, in gestation for over fifteen years, provides the texts of both the 1818 and 1831 editions, as well as copious...
The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley, Edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra
"The Mortal Immortal" | 1833
Includes HTML and ASCII versions, related contemporary literary works, critical bibliography, print history, images, writings on the text, & notes.
The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces
The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces | 1781
This electronic edition makes available the works of the mostly unknown late-eighteenth-century poet and teacher Catherine Upton, including The Siege of Gibraltar (1781), an epistolary prose...

Poetry

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The Devil's Walk, Edited by Neil Fraistat and Donald H. Reiman
The Devil's Walk
Includes HTML formatted texts, editors' introduction, critically edited text, diplomatic transcription, photofacsimile, & clear reading texts. Also...
The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces
The Siege of Gibraltar and Miscellaneous Pieces | 1781
This electronic edition makes available the works of the mostly unknown late-eighteenth-century poet and teacher Catherine Upton, including The Siege of Gibraltar (1781), an epistolary prose...
Poems 1773, Edited by Lisa Vargo and Allison Muri
Poems | 1773
Includes transcriptions, photo reproductions of the original volume, critical apparatus, & a "Poem Web," featuring detailed commentary & contextual materials for "On a Lady's Writing."
Lyrical Ballads, Edited by Ron Tetrault and Bruce Graver
Lyrical Ballads | 1798
This electronic edition makes available all 4 versions of Lyrical Ballads in the form of transcriptions edited from original printed copies, accompanied by images of each page. Enables...
The Temple of Nature, Edited by Martin Priestman
The Temple of Nature | 1803
The first fully annotated edition of Erasmus Darwin's influential scientific poem and its copious original notes; including the first publication, from draft...
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Collected Writings of Robert Bloomfield
Admired by Wordsworth and Southey, called by Clare 'the greatest Pastoral Poet England ever gave birth too’, Robert Bloomfield was one of the bestselling poets of the nineteenth century. A labouring-...
Wat Tyler, a Dramatic Poem by Robert Southey Electronic Edition Edited by Matt Hill
Wat Tyler | 1817
An electronic edition of Robert Southey's poem based on the peasants' rebellion of 1381. This edition provides contextual background on the poem's embattled...
The Sceptic, Edited by Nanora Sweet and Barbara Taylor
The Sceptic; A Poem: A Hemans-Byron Dialogue
This edition places Hemans in direct contention with Byron over belief in an afterlife. Includes letters, reviews, poems...
The Banks of Wye by Robert Bloomfield, Edited by Tim Fulford
The Banks of Wye | 1811
An edition of Robert Bloomfield's multimedia picturesque tour of the Wye valley. Poem, tour journal, sketchbook. This edition presents a rare surviving example of the kind of multimedia production...
The Griffin (1820) and Other Works | 1820
This edition showcases the poetry of Thomas D’Arcy Morris (1792-1835), a significant figure in the Bombay literary scene of the early nineteenth century. It identifies and attributes Morris’s works,...
Norse Romanticism: Themes in British Literature 1760-1830, Edited By Robert W. Rix
Norse Romanticism
This edition collects twenty-one British writers from c. 1760–1830, a period which is today associated with the rise of Romantic sensibilities. A number of literary works in Britain were inspired by...
The Wanderings of Cain, Edited by N. Santilli
"Wanderings of Cain" | 1828
Publishes, for the first time, all the fragments of this unfinished poem in one edition. Includes a composite reading text, piecing together all the fragments...
Thoughts in Prison, Edited by Charles J. Rzepka
Thoughts in Prison | 1777
Romantic Circles is pleased to announce the publication of William Dodd's long poem Thoughts in Prison (1777). Written while he was awaiting execution for forgery in his Newgate prison cell...
L.E.L.'s Verses and the Keepsake for 1829, Edited by Terence Hoagwood, Martin Jacobsen, and Kathryn Ledbetter
"Verses" and The Keepsake for 1829 | 1829
Includes introduction, diplomatic transcriptions, facsimile pages, biography, bibliography, & commentary.
The Oceanides, Edited by Judith Pascoe
The Oceanides | 1832 to 1833
This edition situates the poem sequence within Jewsbury's life and career, including a prose account of her journey to India, memoirs, & poems inspired by...
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci, Edited by Neil Fraistat and Melissa Jo Sites
On The Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
Includes dialogic commentary; critical essays by Jerome J. McGann, W.J.T. Mitchell, and Grant F. Scott; images; bibliography; & notes.
The Political House that Jack Built, Edited by Kyle Grimes
The Political House that Jack Built | 1819
Includes diplomatic transcription of the title page and Hone's verse text, as well as the poem "The Clerical Magistrate". Also offers original illustrations...
Verses Transcribed for H.T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin
Verses Transcribed for H.T. | 1805
Published here for the first time, Verses Transcribed for H.T. is a manuscript collection of 121 original lyric poems with 72 original illustrations that Mary Tighe prepared in 1805 as she...
British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793-1815, by Betty T. Bennet, Edited by Orianne Smith
British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism | 1793 to 1815
An electronic edition of Bennett's collection of 350 poems highlighting the complex attitudes to the wars of the period. Includes Bennett's original...

Correspondence

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The Collected Letters of Robert Southey Part 3
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Three | 1804 to 1809
Part Three is the first-ever collected edition of the surviving letters written by Southey between 1804 and 1809. The letters published here begin with Southey writing to his brother...
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey Part 1: 1791-1797, Edited By Lynda Pratt
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part One | 1791 to 1797
Robert Southey was one of the best-known, controversial and innovative writers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Based upon extensive new archival research, this Collected...
The Letters of Robert Bloomfield and His Circle, Edited By Tim Fulford and Lynda Pratt
The Letters of Robert Bloomfield and His Circle
This edition builds upon new scholarship on Romantic rural poet Robert Bloomfield, collecting all his extant letters plus a selection of those written to him...
A Letter to the Women of England, Edited by Adriana Craciun, Anna Irmen Close, Megan Musgrave, and Orianne Smith
Letter to the Women of England | 1799
Includes introduction, transcriptions, reviews, letters to and from Robinson, selected poems, bibliography, & notes.
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey Part 4: 1810-1815
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Four | 1810 to 1815
Part Four, covering the period 1810-1815, was a crucial one for Southey’s career and reputation. It has, however, never before been fully documented or fully understood. By 1810...
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn, Edited by Grant Scott and Sue Brown
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
A collection of 46 letters published in full for the first time, shedding new light on the life and character of Charles Brown and the most important...
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Six
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Six
Based on extensive new archival research, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Six: 1819 to 1821 brings together for the first time Southey’s surviving letters from a period of...
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Edited By Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey
Robert Southey was one of the best-known, controversial and innovative writers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Based upon extensive new archival research, this Collected...
Anna Letitia Barbauld Letters to Lydia Rickards, 1798–1815
Anna Letitia Barbauld, whose collected works are in progress from Oxford University Press, was eminent as a poet, a path-breaking writer for children, a political writer during the years of the...
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Two
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Two | 1798 to 1803
Robert Southey was one of the best-known, controversial and innovative writers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Based upon extensive new archival research, this Collected...
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Five
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Five | 1816 to 1818
Based on extensive new archival research, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Five: 1816-1818 publishes for the first time Southey’s surviving letters from a period of...
A Rediscovered Letter by John Keats, Edited by Dearing Lewis
A John Keats Letter Rediscovered
Includes introduction, diplomatic transcription, & notes.
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Historical Authors

Below is selection of historical authors represented at RC. More information on documents authored by a person can be found by clicking a person's name. To view all historical authors represented on the site, go here.

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Charlotte Turner Smith
Smith, Charlotte Turner
George Cruikshank
Cruikshank, George
Walter Savage Landor
Landor, Walter Savage
Walter Scott
Scott, Walter
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Coleridge, Hartley
Cowper, William
Jane Austen
Austen, Jane
Jewsbury, Maria Jane
Yearsley, Ann
Hunt, Leigh
Seward, Anna
Sarah Stickney Ellis
Ellis, Sarah Stickney
John Gabriel Stedman stands over a slave after the capture of Gado Saby, from the frontispiece of his Narrative.
Stedman, John Gabriel
Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Hugh Blair
Blair, Hugh
Mercier, Louis-Sébastien
Dorothy Wordsworth
Wordsworth, Dorothy
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Contemporary Authors

Below is selection of contemporary authors represented at RC. More information on documents authored by a person can be found by clicking a person's name. To view all contemporary authors represented on the site, go here.

Barnett, Suzanne L.

Furr, Derek

Ferris, David S.

Mondello, Kaitlin

Rzepka, Charles J.

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Editors

Below is selection of editors at RC. More information on resources by a person can be found by clicking a person's name. To view all contemporary authors represented on the site, go here.

McKusick, James C.

Gurton-Wachter, Lily

Rix, Robert W.

Kelley, Theresa M.

Brown, Sue

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Selected Images from the RC Gallery

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Latest from Reviews & Receptions

The Latest reviews and posts to the "Romanticism and Popular Culture" database.

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Alexander Freer, Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure (Oxford University Press, 2020), 272 pp.
(Hbk, $70/£55, ISBN: 9780198856986)

 Alexander Freer, Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure. Reviewed by Matt ffytche.

Nikki Hessell, Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 269 pp. including apparatus. (Cloth ISBN 9783319709321. eBook 9783319709338 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70933.8. Kim TallBear, “Dear Indigenous Studies, It’s Not Me, It’s You: Why I Left and What Needs to Change.” Critical Indigenous Studies: Engagements in First World Locations. Ed. Aileen Moreton-Robinson. Tucson: U of Arizona Press, 2016. 69-82.

 “Romantic Entanglements, Irreconcilable Differences: Indigenous Translations”: a collaborative review of Nikki Hessell's Romantic Literature and the Colonised World and Kim TallBear's “Dear Indigenous Studies" by Matt Hooley & Dawn Morgan

Chris Washington, Romantic Revelations: Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene (University of Toronto Press, 2019). 252 pp. (Hdbk., $67.00; ISBN 9781487504502).

 Chris Washington, Romantic Revelations: Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene (University of Toronto Press, 2019). Reviewed by Joel Faflak

Dara Rossman Regaignon, Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre (Ohio State UP, 2021). 204 pp., (Hardcover, $69.95; ISBN 978-0-8142-1469-5).

 Dara Rossman Regaignon, Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre (Ohio State UP, 2021), Reviewed by Diana Pérez Edelman

Selected Audio

  1. Anne Marie Macari reads "I Am!" by John Clare
  2. Johanna Drucker reads "Stanzas" ["Could Love for ever"] by George Gordon, Lord Byron
  3. Patrick Phillips reads "A slumber did my spirit seal" by William Wordsworth
  4. Stefanie Wortman reads "The Chimney Sweeper" [from Songs of Experience] by William Blake
  5. Sebastian Matthews reads "I Am" by John Clare

RC Sections

Praxis Series
Digital scholarly essays organized thematically by volume: from the gothic to discourses of empire, and many others.
Electronic Editions
Scholar-edited editions of literary works and other Romantic-era productions: from novels and poetry to letters and travel writing.
Pedagogies
Resources for teachers of Romantic Studies, including essays on teaching Romanticism in the Pedagogies Commons Series.
Scholarly Resources
Chronologies, Bibliographies, Concordances, and other resources to aide in the study and teaching of Romanticism
Reviews & Receptions
Includes short reviews of recent work, live BookChats, listicles, and an evolving compendium of appearances of Romanticism in popular culture.
RC Data
Learn more about Romantic Circles's experiments with data both big and small.
The Shelley-Godwin Archive
The Shelley-Godwin Archive provides the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft.