Resource Guide:
The Romantics

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

• The British Library
• The Keats-Shelley House Library and Collections
• The William Blake Archive
• Romantic Circles

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.

• English literature--18th century--History and criticism
• English literature--19th century--History and criticism
• Romanticism--Great Britain
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
• Blake, William, 1757-1827
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
• Keats, John, 1795-1821
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
• Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850

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

• Academic Search Complete
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• MLA

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.

• Romanticism
• Studies in Romanticism
• Studies in English Literature
• Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
• Emergence of Romanticism
• Romanticism, Lyricism, and History
• Handbook of British Romanticism
• Poetic Form and British Romanticism
• Essays in Literature
• Journal of Literary Studies
• Oxford Literary Review
• Persuasions: the Jane Austen Journal
• Christianity and Literature

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.