Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in English Literature.

• Series Editor's Preface viiIntroduction 1Duncan WuPart I: William Blake (1757-1827): 1. Songs of InnocenceIntroduction 8The Shepherd 8The Echoing Green 9The Lamb 9The Little Black Boy 10The Blossom 11The Chimney Sweeper 11The Little Boy Lost 12The Little Boy Found 12Laughing Song 12A Cradle Song 13The Divine Image 14Holy Thursday 14Night 15Spring 16Nurse's Song 17Infant Joy 17A Dream 17On Another's Sorrow 182. Songs of Experience:Introduction 19Earth's Answer 20The Clod and the Pebble 20Holy Thursday 21The Little Girl Lost 21The Little Girl Found 23The Chimney Sweeper 24Nurse's Song 24The Sick Rose 25The Fly 25The Angel 26The Tyger 26My Pretty Rose-Tree 27Ah, Sunflower! 27The Lily 27The Garden of Love 27The Little Vagabond 28London 28The Human Abstract 29Infant Sorrow 29A Poison Tree 30A Little Boy Lost 30A Little Girl Lost 31To Tirzah 32The Schoolboy 32The Voice of the Ancient Bard 33A Divine Image 33Part II: William Wordsworth (1770-1850):Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey 34The Two-Part Prelude (Part I only) 37Strange fits of passion I have known 47Song (‘She dwelt among the 'untrodden ways') 48A slumber did my spirit seal 48Three years she grew in sun and shower 49I travelled among unknown men 50Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 50Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 51Daffodils 55Stepping Westward 56The Solitary Reaper 57The River Duddon: Conclusion 58Part III: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834):Of the Fragment of ‘Kubla Khan' 59Kubla Khan 60The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In seven parts 61Frost at MidnightChristabel (Part I and conclusion only) 81Part IV: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824):From Don Juan: Canto II (extracts) 90Part V: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822):To Wordsworth 136Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 136Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni 138Ozymandias 142The Mask of Anarchy. Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester 142Ode to the West Wind 152England in 1819 154Sonnet (‘Lift not the painted veil') 154To a Skylark 155Part VI: John Keats (1795-1821):On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 158Addressed to Haydon 158On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 159Sonnet (‘When I have fears that I may cease to be') 159The Eve of St Agnes 159La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad 169Ode to Psyche 171Ode to a Nightingale 172Ode on a Grecian Urn 174Ode on Melancholy 176Ode on Indolence 176To Autumn 178Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art 179Index of titles and first lines 180

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