The Longman o T h f anThoLogy of e g goThic Verse L o o T EDITED BY n CAROLINE FRANKLIN h g i c m Gothic verse liberated the dark side of Romantic and Victorian verse: its medievalism, melancholy and morbidity. Some poets intended merely to shock V a or entertain, but Gothic also liberated the creative imagination and inspired them e n to enter disturbing areas of the psyche and to portray extreme states of human r consciousness. This anthology illustrates that journey. a s n This is the first modern anthology of Gothic verse. It traces the rise of Gothic e in the late eighteenth century and follows its footsteps through the nineteenth T century. Gothic has never truly died as it constantly reinvents itself, and this lively, h illustrated and annotated anthology offers students the atmospheric poetry that o originally studded terror novels and inspired horror films. Alongside canonical verse by Coleridge, Keats and Poe, it introduces readers to lesser-known L authors’ excursions into the macabre and the grotesque. A wide range of poetic o forms is included: as well as ballads, tales, lyrics, meditative odes and dramatic g monologues, a medievalist romance by Scott and Gothic drama by Byron are also included in full. y A substantial introduction by Caroline Franklin puts the rise of Gothic poetry The Longman into its historical context, relating it both to Romanticism and Enlightenment C E historicism. Although Gothic fiction has now been receiving serious critical A D attention for twenty years, Gothic verse has been largely overlooked. It is R IT O E anThoLogy of therefore hoped that this anthology will stimulate scholarly interest as well as L D I readers’ pleasure in these unearthly poems. N B E Y F goThic Verse R The Nightmare, 1781 (oil on canvas) by Henry Fuseli, (Fussli, Johann Heinrich) (1741-1825). Reproduced A courtesy of The Detroit Institute of Arts, USA /Founders Society purchase with Mr & Mrs Bert L. Smokler N and Mr & Mrs Lawrence A. Fleischman funds / The Bridgeman Art Library. K L I N EDITED BY CAROLINE FRANKLIN www.pearson-books.com CVR_FRAN9314_01_SE_CVR.indd 1 16/6/10 08:59:35 THE LONGMAN ANTHOLOGY OF GOTHIC VERSE THE LONGMAN ANTHOLOGY OF GOTHIC VERSE Edited by CAROLINE FRANKLIN Swansea University PEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED Edinburgh Gate Harlow CM20 2JE United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1279 623623 Fax: +44 (0)1279 431059 Website: www.pearsoned.co.uk First edition published in Great Britain in 2011 © Pearson Education Limited 2011 The right of Caroline Franklin to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. ISBN: 978-1-4058-9931-4 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book can be obtained from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The Longman anthology of gothic verse / edited by Caroline Franklin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-1-4058-9931-4 (pbk.) 1. Gothic poetry (Literary genre), English. 2. Gothic poetry (Literary genre), American. 3. Gothic poetry (Literary genre) I. Franklin, Caroline, 1949– PR1195.G65L66 2010 821′.008015—dc22 2010019793 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the Publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. This book may not be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise disposed of by way of trade in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, without the prior consent of the Publishers. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 14 13 12 11 10 Set by 35 in 9/12pt Stone Serif Printed and bound in Malaysia, CTP-KHL For Mike, Geraint and Beatriz, Ieuan and Céline CONTENTS List of plates xi Preface xii Acknowledgements xiv Timeline xv Introduction 1 Thomas Percy (1729–1811) – editor 17 Edward 17 Sweet William’s Ghost 20 Walter Scott (1771–1832) – editor 23 The Cruel Sister 23 Edward Young (bap. 1683–1765) 27 FromThe Complaint: or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality 27 Robert Blair (1699–1746) 29 FromThe Grave, A Poem 29 Thomas Gray (1716–1771) 32 The Fatal Sisters: An Ode 32 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) 36 The Erl-King 36 The Bride of Corinth 38 Charlotte Turner Smith (1749–1806) 46 Sonnet 44 46 George Crabbe (1754–1832) 48 ‘Peter Grimes’ from The Borough 48 The World of Dreams 58 Mary Darby Robinson (1756–1800) 70 The Haunted Beach 70 Robert Burns (1759–1796) 73 Tam o’Shanter: A Tale 73 vii CONTENTS Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) 82 The Ghost of Faden 82 Helen Maria Williams (1761–1827) 90 Part of an Irregular Fragment 90 Ann Ward Radcliffe (1764–1823) 98 Shipwreck 98 William Taylor (1765–1836) 100 Ellenore 100 James Hogg (bap. 1770–1835) 112 The Witch of Fife 113 Kilmeny 124 Superstition 136 A Witch’s Chant 143 William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 145 The Thorn 146 The Danish Boy, a Fragment 154 From The Prelude, Book 1 – childhood and school time 156 Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) 160 The Lay of the Last Minstrel 160 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 256 The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere in Seven Parts 258 Christabel 279 Robert Southey (1774–1843) 300 The Old Woman of Berkeley 302 God’s Judgement on a Wicked Bishop 308 Cornelius Agrippa 311 From Thalaba the Destroyer, Book 8 313 M. G. Lewis (1775–1818) 317 Midnight Hymn 318 Alonzo the Brave and Fair Imogine 320 John Herman Merivale (1779–1844) 325 The Dead Men of Pest 325 Thomas Moore (1779–1852) 332 The Lake of the Dismal Swamp 332 viii CONTENTS Charlotte Dacre – Charlotte King Byrne (1782?–1825) 335 Death and the Lady 336 The Mistress to the Spirit of her Lover 340 Mildew 342 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 343 Politics and Poetics 343 Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) 349 A Damsel Came in Midnight Rain 349 It Was a Friar of Orders Free 351 The Pool of the Diving Friar 352 George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) 356 Manfred, A Dramatic Poem 356 ‘The Black Friar’ from Don Juan 403 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 414 Fragment, or the Triumph of Conscience 414 Song: ‘Ah! faint, are her limbs’ 415 Zeinab and Kathema 416 Ginevra 422 John Clare (1793–1864) 428 The Haunted Pond 428 An Invite to Eternity 433 Felicia Dorothea Hemans (née Browne) (1793–1835) 435 Second Sight 436 The Haunted House 437 John Keats (1795–1821) 440 Lamia 440 Isabella, or, The Pot of Basil 461 The Eve of St Agnes 478 La Belle Dame sans Merci 492 Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) 495 The Mistletoe Bough 495 Thomas Hood (1799–1845) 497 The Last Man 497 Mary’s Ghost 504 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) 507 Dirge 508 ix