Anthologies

Mary Robinson:

Selected Poems

Edited by Judith Pascoe

Ontario: Broadview, 2000

CONTENTS

A Note on the Texts and Illustrations

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Mary Darby Robinson: A Brief Chronology

From Poems (1775)

A Pastoral Elegy

The Linnet's Petition

Letter to a Friend on Leaving Town

From Poems (1791)

Ode to the Muse

Ode to Melancholy

Ode to the Nightingale

Ode to Della Crusca

Lines to Him Who Will Understand Them

Lines Inscribed to P. De Loutherbourg, Esq. R.A.

The Adieu to Love

Stanzas to Flora

Oberon to the Queen of the Fairies

Sonnet. Written Among the Ruins of an Ancient Castle in Germany, In the Year 1786

Ainsi va le Monde

From Poems (1793)

Sight

The Maniac

A Fragment, Supposed to be Written Near the Temple, at Paris, on the Night Before the Execution of Louis XVI

Stanzas. Written After Successive Nights of Melancholy Dreams

Stanzas. Written Between Dover and Calais, in July, 1792

Marie Antoinette's Lamentation, in Her Prison of the Temple

Ode to Rapture

Stanzas to a Friend, Who Desired to Have My Portrait

Sappho and Phaon (1796)

Preface

To the Reader

Account of Sappho

Sappho and Phaon

Sonnet Introductory

Sonnets II-XLIV. Conclusive

Lyrical Tales (1800)

All Alone

The Mistletoe, a Christmas Tale

The Poor, Singing Dame

Mistress Gurton's Cat, a Domestic Tale

The Lascar. In Two Parts

The Widow's Home

The Shepherd's Dog

The Fugitive

The Haunted Beach

Old Barnard, a Monkish Tale

The Hermit of Mont-Blanc

Deborah's Parrot, a Village Tale

The Negro Girl

The Trumpeter, an Old English Tale

The Deserted Cottage

The Fortune-Teller, a Gypsy Tale

Poor Marguerite

The Confessor, a Sanctified Tale

Edmund's Wedding

The Alien Boy

The Granny Grey, a Love Tale

Golfre, a Gothic Swiss Tale

Uncollected poems from newspapers and magazines:

To Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sonnet to Mrs. Charlotte Smith, on Hearing That Her Son Was Wounded at the Siege of Dunkirk

Stanzas

All For-Lorn

The Camp

Great and Small!

Poems incorporated into The Progress of Liberty

The Birth-Day of Liberty

The Progress of Liberty

The Horrors of Anarchy

The Vestal

The Monk

The Dungeon

The Cell of the Atheist

The African

The Italian Peasantry

Harvest Home

From The Poetical Works (1806)

Ode to the Snow-drop

Ode Inscribed to the Infant Son of S.T. Coleridge, Esq.

To the Poet Coleridge

The Savage of Aveyron

The Birth-Day

The Summer Day

The Wintry Day

On Leaving the Country for the Winter Season, 1799

Oberon's Invitation to Titania

Titania's Answer to Oberon

Jasper

London's Summer Morning

The Poet's Garret

January, 1795

Impromptu Sent to a Friend Who Had Left His Gloves, by Mistake, at the Author's House on the Preceding Evening

Modern Male Fashions

Modern Female Fashions

Appendix A: Three letters of Mary Robinson

To John Taylor, 5 October 1794

To William Godwin, 24 August 1800

To Jane Porter , 27 August 1800

Appendix B: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems in response to Robinson

The Apotheosis, or the Snow-Drop

Alcaeus to Sappho

A Stranger Minstrel

Appendix C: Reviews of Robinson's Poetry

Review of Poems (1791) in the Critical Review

Review of Sappho and Phaon (1796) in the English Review

Review of Lyrical Tales (1800) in the Monthly Review

Review of The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson (1806) in the Annual Review

Appendix D: Publication histories of Robinson's poems

List of changes

Index of first lines

Index of title

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