The essays in this volume explore the relationship
between Romantic Gothicism and the rise of the visual
technologies centred on commercial exploitation of
the magic lantern...
Norse Romanticism: Themes in British Literature, 1760-1830
Table of Contents
- About this Edition
- Introduction
- Texts
- "The Dying Ode of Regner Lodbrog" (1763)
- Thomas Percy
- Introduction | Primary
- "The Fatal Sisters. An Ode" (1768)
- Thomas Gray
- Introduction | Primary
- "The Descent of Odin" (1768)
- Thomas Gray
- Introduction | Primary
- "Fragment of a Northern Tale" (1773)
- James Macpherson
- Introduction | Primary
- "The Carousal of Odin" (1775)
- Thomas Penrose
- Introduction | Primary
- "Incantation" (1781)
- Thomas James Mathias
- Introduction | Primary
- "Scalder: An Ode" (1782)
- Joseph Sterling
- Introduction | Primary
- "Gwin, King of Norway" (1783)
- William Blake
- Introduction | Primary
- From part one of The Rise and Progress of the Scandinavian Poetry: A Poem in Two Parts (1784)
- Edward Jerningham
- Introduction | Primary
- From Book four of Arthur; or, the Northern Enchantment. A Poetical Romance (1789)
- Richard Hole
- Introduction | Primary
- The Descent of Frea: A Masque in Two Acts (1790)
- Frank L. Sayers
- Introduction | Primary
- "The Race of Odin" (1795)
- Robert Southey
- Introduction | Primary
- "Death of Odin" (1795)
- Robert Southey
- Introduction | Primary
- Extract from "To A. S. Cottle from Robert Southey" (1797)
- Robert Southey
- Introduction | Primary
- Herva at the Tomb of Argantyr. A Runic Dialogue (1796)
- Anna Seward
- Introduction | Primary
- Song of Harold the Valiant ([1766], 1797)
- William Mason
- Introduction | Primary
- [The Danish Boy] A Fragment (1800)
- William Wordsworth
- Introduction | Primary
- A Fact, and an Imagination or, Canute and Alfred, on the Seashore (1820)
- William Wordsworth
- Introduction | Primary
- The Water-King (1800)
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Introduction | Primary
- Hrim Thor or The Winter King. A Lapland Ballad (1801)
- Anonymous
- Introduction | Primary
- Hymn to Woden (1801)
- William Lisle Bowles
- Introduction | Primary
- Fiolfar (1806)
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Introduction | Primary
- Gunlaug (1806)
- Walter Savage Landor
- Introduction | Primary
- Harold the Dauntless. A Poem (1817)
- Walter Scott
- Introduction | Primary
- Salisbury Plains. Stonehenge (1826)
- Ann Radcliffe
- Introduction | Primary
- Glossary
- Timeline
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March 2012
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