The poem was first published in 1794.

Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).

This is “The Tyger,” one of the best known poems by the English poet William Blake (1757-1827).

William Cowper wrote John Gilpin (1782), John Keats wrote Poems (1816), Christina Rossetti wrote Goblin Market (1862), and Matthew Arnold wrote Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (1852). 

Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).

William Blake wrote both Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence, but “The Tyger” is from the former collection. (The other titles are invented.)

Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793), The Book of Los (1795), Europe a Prophecy (1794), An Island in the Moon (1785) are all by William Blake. Lamia is an 1820 narrative poem by John Keats.

Passage adapted from William Blake’s Songs of Experience (1794).

This is "Goblin Market,” a poem by the English author Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). It is a fantastical narrative poem about two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, and the cries they hear from magical goblin merchants. The poem is often read as an elaborate metaphor for loss of sexual innocence, although Rossetti stated that the poem was really intended for children.

William Wordsworth wrote The Excursion (1814), Matthew Arnold wrote Culture and Anarchy (1869), John Keats wrote Poems (1816), and Joanna Baillie wrote Plays on the Passions (1798).

Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).

Following publication of Rossetti’s 1872 poem “In the Bleak Midwinter” in Scribner’s Monthly, Gustav Holst adapted the work to music.

Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).

The poem was first published in 1862, although it was written several years earlier in the late 1850s.

Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti’s brother, illustrated the text. He was a poet himself and a leading founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an artistic movement that rejected Mannerism and embraced lush, sensual details and rich colors in painting.

Passage adapted from Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market (1862).

This is William Wordsworth’s “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan (1816), Matthew Arnold wrote The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849), William Blake wrote The Four Zoas (1797), and Christina Rossetti wrote Speaking Likenesses (1874).

Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798).

As noted in the full title of the poem, “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” was published in 1798. Wordsworth lived from 1770 to 1850.

Passage adapted from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798).