Manfred

An old sailor stops a wedding guest to tell how killing an albatross brought a curse of thirst, death, and ghostly crewmen. Coleridge's 1798 ballad is the great supernatural poem of English Romanticism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Christabel, a young lady brings a mysterious woman named Geraldine into her father's castle, with unsettling results. This edition pairs the unfinished 1816 gothic ballad with the visionary Kubla Khan.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Keats's 1820 collection, with the serpent-woman Lamia, the severed head of Isabella, and the moonlit castle of The Eve of St. Agnes. Includes the great odes and an introduction with notes.

John Keats

On a bleak December midnight, a grieving student is visited by a raven that answers every question with one word: Nevermore. Published in 1845, it is the most famous gothic poem in English.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poe's last complete poem (1849) mourns a young bride taken by a chilling wind, and a love that refuses to stay buried. A haunting ballad of death and devotion beside the sea.

Edgar Allan Poe