Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, (Penguin Classics).
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, (Norton Critical Editions).
Walter Scott: Old Mortality, (Penguin Classics).
Følgende utvalg fra The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II, 7th edition:
- Introduction: The Romantic Period
Poesi:
- William Blake, "The Lamb", "The Tyger", The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- William Wordsworth, fra The Prelude: Books 1 (ll.301-647), 3 (ll.170-203), 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14; "Resolution and Independence", "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan", "Dejection: An Ode"
- John Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on Melancholy"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Sky-Lark"
- Lord Byron, fra Childe Harold (utdragene i antologien); fra Don Juan, utdrag fra Canto I (St. 1, 5-10, 52-65, 69-72, 75-79, 86, 90-94)
Prosa:
- Mary Wollstonecraft, fra A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Ch. 4
- Edmund Burke, fra Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Thomas Paine, fra Rights of Man
- William Wordsworth, “Preface” til Lyrical Ballads
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, fra Biographia Literaria, Chs. 13, 14
- Dorothy Wordsworth, fra The Alfoxden Journals og The Grasmere Journals
- William Hazlitt, "My First Acquaintance with Poets"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, fra "A Defence of Poetry", “Preface” til Prometheus Unbound
- Thomas de Quincey, fra Confessions of an English Opium Eater: “The Pains of Opium”
- John Keats, Brev av 22.11.1817; 21.12.1817; 27.2.1818; 27.10.1818; 16.8.1820
Fra Lyrical Ballads (Oxford University Press, Owens):
- William Wordsworth, "Goody Blake and Harry Gill", "Simon Lee", "We Are Seven", "Lines Written in Early Spring", "The Thorn", "Expostulation and Reply", "The Tables Turned", "Tintern Abbey"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere"
Anbefalt sekundærlitteratur:
M.H. Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, 1953.
Stuart Curran (editor): The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, 1993.