Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, (Penguin Classics).
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, (Norton Critical Editions).
Walter Scott: Old Mortality , (Oxford World Classics).
Følgende utvalg fra The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II, 7th or later edition:
•Introduction: The Romantic Period
Poesi:
•William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; "The Lamb"; "The Tyger"
•William Wordsworth, from The Prelude: Books 1 (ll.1-58, 301-475), 12 (ll.75-92, 127-47, 193-335), 14 (ll.1-218); "Resolution and Independence"; "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"; from Lyrical Ballads: "We Are Seven", "The Thorn", "Expostulation and Reply", "The Tables Turned"
•Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; "Kubla Khan"; "Dejection: An Ode"
•John Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes"; "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"; "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
•Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"; "Ode to the West Wind"; "To a Sky-Lark"
•Lord Byron, from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Cantos 1, 3 (St. 1-16, 36-55, 113-18), 4 (St. 175-86); from Don Juan: Canto I (St. 1-10, 52-94)
Prosa:
•William Wordsworth, “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads
•Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Biographia Literaria: Chs. 13, 14
•Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Preface” to Prometheus Unbound
•John Keats, Letters: 22.11.1817; 21.12.1817; 3.2.1818; 27.10.1818
Anbefalt sekundærlitteratur (ikke obligatorisk):
Aidan Day, Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom, 1996)
M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1953)
Duncan Wu (ed.), A Companion to Romanticism (1998)