Table of Contents
List of plates xi
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiv
Timeline xv
Introduction 1
Thomas Percy (1729-1811)-editor 17
Edward 17
Sweet William's Ghost 20
Walter Scott (1771-1832)-editor 23
The Cruel Sister 23
Edward Young (bap. 1683-1765) 27
From The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality 27
Robert Blair (1699-1746) 29
From The Grave, A Poem 29
Thomas Gray (1716-1771) 32
The Fatal Sisters: An Ode 32
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) 36
The Erl-King 36
The Bride of Corinth 38
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) 46
Sonnet 44 46
George Crabbe (1754-1832) 48
'Peter Grimes' from The Borough 48
The World of Dreams 58
Mary Darby Robinson (1756-1800) 70
The Haunted Beach 70
Robert Burns (1759-1796) 73
Tam o'Shanter: A Tale 73
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) 82
The Ghost of Faden 82
Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) 90
Part of an Irregular Fragment 90
Ann Ward Radcliffe (1764-1823) 98
Shipwreck 98
William Taylor (1765-1836) 100
Ellenore 100
James Hogg (bap. 1770-1835) 112
The Witch of Fife 113
Kilmeny 124
Superstition 136
A Witch's Chant 143
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 145
The Thorn 146
The Danish Boy, a Fragment 154
From The Prelude, Book 1-childhood and school time 156
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) 160
The Lay of the Last Minstrel 160
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 256
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere in Seven Parts 258
Christabel 279
Robert Southey (1774-1843) 300
The Old Woman of Berkeley 302
God's Judgement on a Wicked Bishop 308
Cornelius Agrippa 311
From Thalaba the Destroyer, Book 8 313
M. G. Lewis (1775-1818) 317
Midnight Hymn 318
Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine 320
John Herman Merivale (1779-1844) 325
The Dead Men of Pest 325
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) 332
The Lake of the Dismal Swamp 332
Charlotte Dacre-Charlotte King Byrne (1782"-1825) 335
Death and the Lady 336
The Mistress to the Spirit of her Lover 340
Mildew 342
(James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) 343
Politics and Poetics 343
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) 349
A Damsel Came in Midnight Rain 349
It Was a Friar of Orders Free 351
The Pool of the Diving Friar 352
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 356
Manfred, A Dramatic Poem 356
'The Black Friar' from Don Juan 403
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 414
Fragment, or the Triumph of Conscience 414
Song: 'Ah! faint, are her limbs' 415
Zeinab and Kathema 416
Ginevra 422
John Clare (1793-1864) 428
The Haunted Pond 428
An Invite to Eternity 433
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (née Browne) (1793-1835) 435
Second Sight 436
The Haunted House 437
John Keats (1795-1821) 440
Lamia 440
Isabella, or, The Pot of Basil 461
The Eve of St Agnes 478
La Belle Dame sans Merci 492
Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) 495
The Mistletoe Bough 495
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) 497
The Last Man 497
Mary's Ghost 504
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) 507
Dirge 508
Song 508
A Voice from the Water 509
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) 510
The Raven 511
The Haunted Palace 515
The Sleeper 517
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) 519
The Lady of Shalott 519
Robert Browning (1812-1889) 526
Porphyria's Lover 526
Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848) 529
I'm Happiest When Most Away 530
The Night is Darkening Round Me 530
In the Earth, the Earth, Thou Shalt be Laid 531
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 532
I Like a Look of Agony 532
I Felt a Funeral in my Brain 532
One Need not be a Chamber-to be Haunted 533
Because I Could not Stop for Death 534
I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died 535
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) 536
Goblin Market 536
James Thomson, pseud. B.V. (1834-1882) 553
In the Room 554
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) 561
After Death 561
Itylus 564
John Davidson (1857-1909) 567
A Ballad of a Nun 567
(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) 573
The Vampire 573
Bibliography 575
Index 581
