Current Editions
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Nobody: A Comedy in Two Acts (Drury Lane, 1794) by Mary Robinson. Edited
by Terry F. Robinson.
This edition is the first to present a widely available and searchable transcript of the play along with a comprehensive introduction, extensive notes by the editor, and contexts of the drama. Based on the only surviving manuscript of the play housed in the Larpent collection at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, this edition reproduces the clean copy made by the theater and submitted to the Licensor of Plays. The Contexts section—comprised of a collection of newspaper puffs and reviews, visual satire, and poetry and prose extracts—provides a snapshot of the build-up and intense reaction to the staging of Nobody. Contemporary texts, images, and commentary uncover the historical and cultural framework within which Robinson produced her drama and, as such, offer insight into how Nobody engages some of the most pressing socio-political issues of the day.
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The Gipsy Prince by Thomas Moore, with a musical score by Michael Kelly. Edited
by Frederick Burwick.
Published here for the first time, The Gipsy Prince (Haymarket, 24 July 1801), was the collaboration of Thomas Moore who composed the libretto and lyrics and Michael Kelly who provided the musical score. Though it had the second longest run of Haymarket's summer season, the censoring authorities had not recognized the ploy of introducing the Irish under English rule as Gipsies during the Spanish Inquisition. Although the play could not be revived the following season, publisher John Roach supported Moore by publishing the hoaxing "source," a prose narrative from which Moore pretended to have derived his play. With an introduction by Frederick Burwick, this edition includes his transcription of the previously unpublished manuscript, the prose narrative ostensibly translated from the Spanish, the sheet music as published by Michael Kelly, recordings of the overture and songs as performed under the musical direction of Stephen Pu, and a variorum of the lyrics to facilitate side-by-side comparisons of all versions of the songs. The edition also provides page-by-page images of the original materials.
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Archived Editions
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The Banks of Wye by Robert Bloomfield. Edited
by Tim Fulford.
An edition of Bloomfield's multimedia picturesque tour of the Wye valley. Poem, tour journal, sketchbook.
This edition presents a rare surviving example of the kind of multimedia production that arose from one of the new cultural activities of the late eighteenth century—the picturesque and antiquarian tour. It comprises a facsimile of the manuscript sketch- and scrap-book that Robert Bloomfield made after his 1807 tour of the Wye, an annotated transcription of the prose tour-journal that he incorporated into his scrap book, and a collated and annotated text of the poetic versions of the tour that were published (as The Banks of Wye) in 1811, 1813, and 1823. Also included are reproductions of the engravings that illustrated the 1811 and 1813 publications, deleted or unadopted passages from the manuscript of the poem, and a selection of reviews from journals of the time.
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Robert Southey and Millenarianism: Documents Concerning the Prophetic Movements of the Romantic Era. Edited
by Tim Fulford.
This edition presents the first scholarly edition of Robert Southey’s various writings about the prophetic movements of Romantic-era Britain. Its aim is to throw new light on two related areas: the nature and history of millenarian prophecy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries—especially William Bryan, Richard Brothers, and Joanna Southcott—, and the significance of prophecy in Southey’s social, political analysis of his times. A fascinated commentator upon what he termed ‘enthusiasm’, Southey published two of the earliest accounts of Southcott and her predecessors ever written, accounts derived both from personal acquaintance with some of the major figures involved and from a detailed study of their writings. These accounts are reproduced here, collated with the manuscripts on which they were based, and with explanatory notes. In addition, a selection of Southey’s remarks on millenarians in his private manuscript correspondence is presented, and an introduction comprising a brief history of the prophetic movements in the Romantic era and a critical discussion of Southey’s writings on the subject.
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Norse Romanticism: Themes in British Literature, 1760-1830. Edited
by Robert W. Rix.
This edition collects twenty-one British writers from c. 1760–1830, a period which is today associated with the rise of Romantic sensibilities. A number of literary works in Britain were inspired by Old Norse manuscripts, collections of Danish folklore or similar such texts from Scandinavia. This electronic edition is a selection of these by canonical authors (such as Thomas Gray, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Walter Scott, and Ann Radcliffe), as well as selections by lesser known writers, whose texts have not previously been available to modern readers. This edition provides the contextual framework and necessary commentary to explain the ways in which these writers repurpose Norse material.
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The Collected Letters of Robert Southey,
Parts One and Two. Edited by Lynda Pratt and Ian Packer.
Robert Southey was one of the best-known, controversial and innovative writers in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Based upon extensive new archival research, this Collected edition makes available for the first time all his surviving letters, freshly edited, annotated and introduced. Part One covers 1791-1797, turbulent years which saw the forging of Southey's career and reputation, his involvement in radical politics, and the beginning of his friendships with Wordsworth and Coleridge. Part Two covers 1798-1803, a turbulent and crucial time for Southey. It encompasses his public and private responses to Lyrical Ballads (1798); his reaction to the rise of Napoleon and the continuing conflict between Britain and revolutionary France; his second and final visit to Portugal and the resultant hardening of his anti-Catholicism; his unhappy stint as a secretary to the Irish Chancellor Isaac Corry, and his emotional bludgeoning by the deaths in relentless succession between 1801-1803 of three Margarets, his cousin, mother and first child.
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William Dodd. Thoughts in Prison. Edited
by Charles Rzepka.
Romantic Circles is pleased to announce the publication of William Dodd's long poem Thoughts in Prison (1777). Written while he was awaiting execution for forgery in his Newgate prison cell, the poem is unique among prison writings and in the history of English literature: none of the many reflections, stories, essays, ballads, and broadside "Confessions" originating—or purporting to have originated—in a jail cell over the last few hundred years can begin to match it in length, in the irony of its author's notoriety, or in the completeness of its erasure from history after a meteoric career in print that began to wane only at the turn of the nineteenth century.
An appendix presents manuscript versions of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower, my Prison," by way of suggesting a reliance, at least metaphorically, on this major work of prison literature by Romantic writers.
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The Letters of Robert Bloomfield. Edited
by Tim Fulford and Lynda Pratt; Associate Editor John Goodridge.
This edition builds upon new scholarship on Romantic rural poet Robert
Bloomfield, collecting all his extant letters plus a selection of those written
to him by literary correspondents, with the hope that by presenting a properly
edited and annotated collected letters we might enable the poet to be a
significant figure for all those studying early nineteenth-century literature
and culture.
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Frankenstein. Edited by Stuart
Curran.
This edition of Frankenstein, in gestation for over fifteen
years, provides the texts of both the 1818 and 1831 editions, as well as
copious annotations that emphasize the novel's strong inter- and intra-textual
connections.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Wanderings of Cain (1828,
1834). Edited by N. Santilli
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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John Keats.
A Rediscovered
Letter by John Keats
(1818). Edited by
Dearing Lewis.
Includes introduction, diplomatic transcription, &
notes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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