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11. Written at the Close of Spring12. To a Nightingale; 13. To the Moon; 14. To the South Downs; 15. To Sleep; 16. Supposed to be Written by Werter; 17. By the Same. To Solitude; 18. By the Same; 19. From Petrarch; 20. 'Blest is yon shepherd, on the turf reclined'; 21. Written on the Sea Shore.-October, 1784; 22. To the River Arun; 23. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785; 24. To the Naiad of the Arun; 25. 'Should the lone wanderer, fainting on his way'; 26. To Night; 27. Written in the Churchyard at Middleton in Sussex. 28. The Captive Escaped in the Wilds of America. Addressed to the Hon. Mrs. O'Neill29. To Dependence; 30. Written in September 1791, During a Remarkable Thunder Storm; 31. On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea; 32. 'Where the wild woods and pathless forests frown'; 33. The Sea View; 34. Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening; 35. Written at Bignor Park in Sussex, in August, 1799; Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762-1837); 36. On Dreams; 37. 'No more by cold philosophy confined'; William Hayley (1745-1820); 38. To Mrs. Hayley, On her Voyage to America. 1784. Annotation Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Suggested Further Reading; Editorial Principles; Thomas Edwards (1699-1757); 1. On a Family-Picture; 2. 'Tongue-doughty pedant'; Thomas Gray (1716-71); 3. On the Death of Mr. Richard West; Thomas Warton (1728-90); 4. 'While summer-suns o'er the gay prospect played'; 5. To the River Lodon; John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-96); 6. 'As when, to one who long hath watched'; 7. Written at a Farm; 8. On a Frightful Dream; 9. On Christmas; Charlotte Smith (1749-1806); 10. 'The partial Muse has from my earliest hours' Expertly edited by Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson, this volume is the first in modern times to collect the sonnets of the Romantic period--many never before published in the twentieth century--and contains nearly five hundred examples composed between 1750 and 1850 by 81 poets, nearlyhalf of them women. A Century of Sonnets includes in their entirety such important but difficult to find sonnet sequences as William Wordsworth's The River Duddon, Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon, and Robert Southey's Poems on the Slave Trade, along with Browning's enduring classic, Sonnets fromthe Portuguese. The poems collected here express the full sweep of human emotion and explore a wide range of themes, including love, grief, politics, friendship, nature, art, and the enigmatic character of poetry itself. Indeed, for many poets the sonnet form elicited their strongest work. A Century of Sonnets shows us that far from disappearing with Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, the sonnet underwent a remarkable rebirth in the Romantic period, giving us a rich body of work that continues to influence poets even today Mary Hays (1760-1843)39. 'Ah! let not hope fallacious, airy, wild'; Helen Maria Williams (1761?-1827); 40. To Twilight; 41. To Hope; 42. To the Moon; 43. To the Strawberry; 44. To the Curlew; 45. To the Torrid Zone; 46. To the White Bird of the Tropic; William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850); 47. To a Friend; 48. 'Languid, and sad, and slow'; 49. Written at Tinemouth, Northumberland, after a Tempestuous Voyage; 50. Written at Bamborough Castle; 51. To the River Wensbeck; 52. To the River Tweed; 53. To the River Itchin, Near Winton; 54. On Dover Cliffs. July 20, 1787; 55. To the River Cherwell. Thomas Russell (1762-88)56. 'Oxford, since late I left thy peaceful shore'; 57. To Valclusa; 58. 'Dear Babe, whose meaning by fond looks expressed'; 59. To the Spider; 60. To the Owl; Mary Locke (fl. 1791-1816); 61. 'I hate the Spring in parti-colored vest'; Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823); 62. To the Visions of Fancy; 63. Sun-Rise: A Sonnet; 64. Night; 65. 'Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve'; 66. Storied Sonnet; 67. To the Bat; Anna Maria Jones (1748-1829); 68. To Echo; 69. To the Moon; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834); 70-80. Sonnets on Eminent Characters.
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