Women Romantic Poets, Vol. 1

by Dorothy Wordsworth, Joanna Baillie, Eliza Townsend, Mary Tighe, Sara Coleridge

Overview

Sixty-nine poems by six of the most admired women Romantic writers—English, Scottish, Irish, and American: Dorothy Wordsworth (William Wordsworth’s sister), Joanna Baillie, Eliza Townsend, Mary Tighe, Sara Coleridge (Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s daughter), and Caroline Bowles Southey. Each in her own way, they all broke with the poetic conventions of the past, writing in ordinary language about ordinary people, and approaching the traditional subjects of poetry with fresh eyes. Comedy and tragedy, love and hatred, life and death, oppression and freedom—they’re all here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798228672161
Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:	09/09/2025
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dorothy Wordsworth
(1771-1855) was a Romantic poet and prose writer and the sister of one of the period’s most famous poets, William Wordsworth. Dorothy was an avid naturalist and many of her works explore themes of nature. Though she did not publish during her lifetime, many of her journals and poems have been published posthumously. In later years, she struggled with addictions to opium and laudanum, and William acted as her main caretaker as her health deteriorated until his death in 1850.
She died five years later.

Evan Blackmore, a psychiatrist, public speaker, radio broadcaster, and editor and translator of classic works of literature and philosophy, has published recordings of many poems ranging in date from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Much of his work during the past forty-five years has been done in collaboration with his wife, Marie, who often records with him.

Marie and Evan Blackmore have worked as editors and translators of classic works of literature and philosophy, and have published audio recordings of many poems ranging in date from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Dorothy Wordsworth The Cottager to Her Infant Address to a Child During a Boisterous Winter Evening The Mother's Return Loving and Liking: Irregular Verses Addressed to a Child Floating Island The Worship of the Sabbath Morn Introduction to Joanna Baillie A Mother to Her Waking Infant An Address to the Night: A Fearful Mind An Address to the Night: A Discontented Mind An Address to the Night: A Sorrowful Mind An Address to the Night: A Joyful Mind "Song to Cupid" from "Bezel" - Act 3, Scene 3 Song from "The Country Inn" - Act 2, Scene 1 Song from "The Phantom" - Act 1, Scene 4 Song of the Outlaws from "Horror" - Act 3, Scene 1 Song from "The Bride" - Act 1, Scene 2 London To a Child The Pursuit of Love Hymn Introduction to Eliza Townsend To A.T. on His Importing the Writer to Compose Something of Magnitude The Rainbow, 1813 Incomprehensibility of God Introduction to Mary Tighe Excerpts from "Psyche" "The Power of Love to Soften Adversity" from "Canto VI" Sonnet Written in the Church Yard at Malvern To Time Sonnet To Blake The World, 1803 The Shawl's Petition, to Lady Asgill Hagar in the Desert The Lily, May 1809 Introduction to Sara Coleridge L'Envoy to Phantasmion Dedication to Pretty Verses for Good Children The Storm The Suspicious Cock and Hen The Mad Bull The Mouse's Retaliation The Wild and Tame Canaries The Generous, Humble, or Bumble Bees Going to Bed The Gold Finch, or Thistle Finch The Happy Little Sleeper Providence Childish Tears Introduction to Caroline Bowles Southey The Hedgehog The River To Death Once Upon a Time... William Gilpin from "The Birth-day" To a Young South-American Spaniard To a Centenarian on Her 100th Birthday To Emily That's What We Are I Weep, but Not Rebellious Tears Past and Present To a Widowed Friend, November 1845 Written in the Flyleaf of My Father's Old Copy of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler" On Hearing for the First Time, the Bells from a New Church A Pleasant Cloud Land Unthinking Youth Forgive O' Father On, On, Upon Our Mortal Course We Go Patient, I am, Resigned and Calm To an Old Family Portrait We Came Together at Life's Even Tide On My Husband's Birthday