Resource Guide:
English Romantic Poets

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Romantic Circles
• Romantic Chronology
• The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive
• The Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project
• Wordsworth Valorium Archive
• Robert Burns
• The Victorian Web
• NINES

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Poets, English - 18th Century - Biography
• Blake, William, 1757-1827 - Criticism and interpretation
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Byron's letters and journals
• Pastoral poetry, English
• Odes, English
• Elegiac poetry, English
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Poems
• Wordsworth, Willaim, 1770-1850. Bibliography
• Lyric poetry - History and criticism
• Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 - Influence
• Folk poetry, English
• Romanticism - Englan - History - 18th century
• Poets, English - 19th century - Correspondence
• Nature in literature - Dictionaries

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Poetry Nation
• English Literary History
• Poet
• Byron Journal
• Wordsworth Circle
• Romanticism
• Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
• European Romantic Review
• Blake, an Illustrated Quarterly
• Romantic Textualities
• Keats-Shelley Journal

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.