David R Wellens Reads Literature. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

Charlotte Smith's "Beachy Head" (final section)

"Written at the Close of Spring", "To Sleep", "To Night", " Written in the Churchyard at Middleton in Sussex", "To Fancy", "On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented b6 a Lunatic", "To the Insect of the Gossamer", "The Sea View", "The Swallow", "The Beachy Head"(first part continued in next episode)

Biography and introduction. "The Mouse's Petition", "An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study", "A Summer Evening's Meditation", "Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade", "The Rights of Woman", "To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible", "Inscription for an Ice-House", "Washing-Day", "The Caterpillar".

"Lord Randall" "Bonny Barbara Allen" "The Wife of Usher's Well" "The Three Ravens" "Sir Patrick Spens" "The Daemon Lover"

Individualism and Alienation. Writing in the Marketplace and Law Courts. Other Literary Forms: Prose, Drama, The Novel.

The New Poetries: Theory and Practice. Concepts of the Poet and Poem. Spontaneity and the Impulse of Feeling. Glorification of the Ordinary. The Supernatural, The Romance and Psychological Extremes.

The cultural and historical context of The Romantic Period 1785-1832 first part. From The Norton Anthology of English Literature (tenth edition) The Romantic Period. Read by Lord David R Wellens M.A.