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The Romantic Circles Electronic Editions offers a searchable archive of texts of the Romantic era, enhanced by technology made possible in an online environment. Each edition is based on the highest scholarly standards and is peer-reviewed.


Current Editions

The Fall of Robespierre Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert Southey. The Fall of Robespierre (1794). Edited by Daniel E. White, with Sarah Copland and Stephen Osadetz.

This edition provides an annotated text of the play, supplemented by a wide range of literary and journalistic materials that offer contexts in which to understand the work's place in relation to the authors' politics, the transmission and reception of news, and the role of Robespierre within English political culture.

Letters of Brown to Severn New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn (1821-42). Edited by Grant F. Scott and Sue Brown

A collection of 46 letters published in full for the first time, shedding new light on the life and character of Charles Brown and the most important friendship in the Keats Circle, as well as Keats’s complex legacy to his friends.

Archived Editions

The Brides' Tragedy Thomas Lovell Beddoes. The Brides' Tragedy (1822). Edited by David Baulch.

This edition presents both the full text and relevant contexts of the play, including a comprehensive introduction and extensive notes by the editor, two of the sources of the play, and four contemporary reviews.

Erasmus Darwin. The Temple of Nature (1803). Edited by Martin Priestman.

The first fully annotated edition of Erasmus Darwin's influential scientific poem and its copious original notes; including the first publication, from draft, of Darwin's hitherto unknown poetic history of technology, The Progress of Society.

Poets on Poets Poets on Poets. Edited by Tilar Mazzeo with Doug Guerra and Matt O'Donnell.

An audio archive of Romantic-period poems selected and read by practicing poets from around the world. Updated quarterly. Includes some audio commentary, textual transcriptions of the poems read, as well as a link to subscribe to an RSS feed for podcasting.

Forthcoming Benjamin Disraeli. Alroy (1871). Edited by Sheila A. Spector.

This early novel, first published in 1833, represents Disraeli in "romantic mode." This version features the novel, an introduction, annotations, reprints of Disraeli's sources, contemporary reviews, & modern criticism, as well as a detailed bibliography of Disraeli's life and works, criticism, & other contextual materials.

Betty T. Bennett, Digital Text edited by Orianne Smith. British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793-1815.

An electronic edition of Bennett's collection of 350 poems highlighting the complex attitudes to the wars of the period. Includes Bennett's original introduction & a new bibliography of poems not included in the original edition.

Robert Southey. Wat Tyler, A Dramatic Poem (1817). Edited by Matt Hill.

An electronic edition of Robert Southey's poem based on the peasants' rebellion of 1381. This edition provides contextual background on the poem's embattled publication and partisan reception.

Felicia Dorothea Hemans. The Sceptic: A Hemans-Byron Dialogue(1820). Edited by Nanora Sweet and Barbara Taylor.

This edition places Hemans in direct contention with Byron over belief in an afterlife. Includes letters, reviews, poems & critical essays that probe the work for its engagements with Byron, allusions to topics of the day, & negotiation of gender.

Maria Jane Jewsbury. The Oceanides (1832-3). Edited by Judith Pascoe.

This edition situates the poem sequence within Jewsbury's life and career, including a prose account of her journey to India, memoirs, & poems inspired by her work. Allows readers to view original poems as they first appeared in The Athenaeum.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge & William Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads (1798-1805). Edited by Ron Tetreault and Bruce Graver.

This electronic edition makes available all 4 versions of Lyrical Ballads in the form of transcriptions edited from original printed copies, accompanied by images of each page. Enables active comparison of texts through Dynamic Collation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Wanderings of Cain (1828, 1834). Edited by N. Santilli.

Publishes, for the first time, all the fragments of this unfinished poem in one edition. Includes a composite reading text, piecing together all the fragments, & a parallel reading text of both Canto II and verse fragment.

Edward Ellerker Williams. Sporting Sketches during a Short Stay in Hindustane (1814). Edited by Tilar Mazzeo.

Includes MS Shelley adds.e.21 and MS Shelley adds.c.12, together comprising Williams's complete travel journal to India, here published in its entirety for the first time. Also included is a critical introduction.

Anna Lætitia Aikin [later Barbauld]. Poems (1773). Edited by Lisa Vargo and Allison Muri.

Includes transcriptions, photo reproductions of the original volume, critical apparatus, & a "Poem Web," featuring detailed commentary & contextual materials for "On a Lady's Writing."

William Hone. The Political House that Jack Built (1820). Edited by Kyle Grimes.

Includes diplomatic transcription of the title page and Hone's verse text, as well as the poem "The Clerical Magistrate". Also offers original illustrations by George Cruikshank, a William Hone chronology, & annotated bibliography.

John Keats. A Rediscovered Letter by John Keats (1818). Edited by Dearing Lewis.

Includes introduction, diplomatic transcription, & notes.

L.E.L.'s 'Verses' and The Keepsake for 1829. Edited by Terence Hoagwood, Kathryn Ledbetter, and Martin M. Jacobsen.

Includes introduction, diplomatic transcriptions, facsimile pages, biography, bibliography, & commentary.

Richard Brinsley Peake Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823). Edited by Stephen C. Behrendt.

Includes an introduction, full text of the play, images of the 1823 cast, a bibliography and filmography, the first reviews of Presumption, & a biography of Richard Brinsley Peake.

Mary Darby Robinson. A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (1799). Edited by Adriana Craciun, Anne Irmen Close, Megan Musgrave, & Orianne Smith.

Includes introduction, transcriptions, reviews, letters to and from Robinson, selected poems, bibliography, & notes.

Mary Shelley. The Last Man (1826). Edited by Steven Jones.

Includes HTML, ASCII, and SGML versions, other works by Mary Shelley, works and excerpts from works cited by Shelley, bibliography, maps, images & sound files, critical essays, contemporary works on plague, notes.

Mary Shelley. The Mortal Immortal (1833). Edited by Michael Eberle-Sinatra.

Includes HTML and ASCII versions, related contemporary literary works, critical bibliography, print history, images, writings on the text, & notes.

Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Devil's Walk (1812). Edited by Neil Fraistat and Donald H. Reiman.

Includes HTML formatted texts, editors' introduction, critically edited text, diplomatic transcription, photofacsimile, & clear reading texts. Also includes collations, bibliography, and notes.

Percy Bysshe Shelley. On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery (1819). Edited by Neil Fraistat and Melissa Jo Sites.

Includes dialogic commentary; critical essays by Jerome J. McGann, W.J.T. Mitchell, and Grant F. Scott; images; bibliography; & notes.

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