Folk culture, the ballad tradition, and Robert Burns
Wordsworth and Coleridge: ballads of nature and the supernatural
Wordworth's "Lyrical ballads 1798 and 1800": rustic life and the questionable pleasures of nature
The descriptive-meditative poem and the divine in nature
Wordsworth and the invention of childhood
Blake and infantine innocence
Byron and Shelley: darkness and light
Gothic horrors: Coleridge's "Christabel" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus"
Keats's (mock-)gothic romances
Byron's comic epic: "Don Juan."
