Romantic literature books

Rural lives, human feeling and supernatural encounters meet in poems that move between the countryside and a sailor's strange voyage.

Childhood trust, play and faith stand beside hunger, fear and cruelty in short poems offering contrasting views of experience.

Threatened love and reflections on beauty, sorrow, nature and death bring together storytelling poems, shorter verse and odes.

Leaving England behind, a restless nobleman travels through Europe in search of distance from his former life, reflecting on loss.

Tired of fashionable society, a young nobleman moves to the countryside, where his choices unsettle new friendships and love.

The speaking self finds connections with other people through poems about bodies, desire, work, city streets and nature.

An abandoned creature's search for affection turns toward revenge, bringing a scientist's act of creation into conflict with another being's needs.

Werther's pleasure in drawing and the countryside gives way to consuming love for a woman already promised to someone else.

A disinherited knight's return leads through tournaments, forest outlaws and a castle siege in an England divided between Saxons and Normans.

A visit to a lonely mansion brings a narrator into the company of a fearful friend and his mysteriously ill sister.

An orphan placed under a threatening guardian faces confinement and unexplained sounds after being taken to a remote Italian castle.

Strange voices draw a student beyond ordinary Dresden life, while his work copying manuscripts leads him further into magic.

Memories of a poet's life meet philosophical arguments about poetry, imagination and the principles needed to understand the mind.

Poetry's power to shape imagination and deepen understanding of other lives anchors essays on love, the mind and belief.