Handlist of Novel Poems for Romanticism and Readers
Handlist of Novel Poems for Romanticism and Readers
Derek Furr, Bard College MAT Program
Please note that this is not an exhaustive list and that for the purposes of the course, I include excerpts from Shakespearean drama among the poems. Most of the texts listed below are identified in the modern edited versions of the class novels listed on the syllabus. Full texts can be found in The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry database, published by Columbia University Press, and the English Poetry Database, published by Chadwyck-Healy, as well as in numerous print collections. Both of the databases include search engines that are invaluable for the research in this course.
Frankenstein
Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
S.T. Coleridge, "The Ryme of the Ancyent Marinere"
Dante, Inferno, Canto XXIII
Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini, Canto II
Charles Lamb, "Old Familiar Faces"
John Milton, Paradise Lost, especially books IV and X
Percy Shelley, "Mont Blanc," "On Mutability"
William Wordsworth, "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
Persuasion
Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II; The Giaour; The Bride of Abydos
Walter Scott, Marmion and Lady of the Lake
James Thomson, "Autumn" from The Seasons
Ivanhoe
Aside from numerous references to Shakespeare's plays, of particular interest are Scott's allusions to Pope's translation of The Odyssey and to Dryden, whose work he had edited. He frequently cites Dryden's versions of Chaucer. See his The Works of John Dryden (London: W. Miller, 1808). Note also:
Anna Seward, "Song (From thy waves, stormy Lannow)"
James Thomson, "Liberty"
Thomas Warton, "Inscription in a Hermitage"
The Monk
Again, numerous allusions to Shakespeare and, as in Scott, many of his own poems. In addition, see:
Robert Blair, The Grave
William Cowper, "Charity"
Alexander Pope, "The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace Imitated"
Matthew Prior, "Pleasure," from Solomon on the Vanity of the World
Jane Eyre
Thomas Aird, The Demoniac
Charlotte Brontë, "My feet they are sore"
Lord Byron, Parisina
S.T. Coleridge, "Rime"
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II
Thomas Moore, "Fallen is thy throne, O, Israel"; Lalla Rookh
Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, IV
James Thomson, "Autumn" from The Seasons
Walter Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel