Early Romantics: Perspectives in British Poetry from Pope to Wordsworth

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Early Romantics: Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Organizing Verse: Burke’s Reflections and Eighteenth-Century Poetry....Pages 9-29
‘Between Self and Self’s Book’: Locke and the Poetry of the Early Romantics....Pages 30-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Autobiography and Elegy: The Early Romantic Poetics of Thomas Gray and Charlotte Smith....Pages 57-69
The Eighteenth-Century Collins....Pages 70-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Goldsmith’s ‘Pensive Plain’: Re-viewing The Deserted Village....Pages 93-116
Wordsworth, Cowper and the Language of Eighteenth-Century Politics....Pages 117-133
‘Still at Home’: Cowper’s Domestic Empires....Pages 134-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
A Very Peculiar Practice: Christopher Smart and the Poetic Language of ‘Early Romanticism’....Pages 151-165
Christopher Smart and William Blake: A Distinctive Mode....Pages 166-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
The Tenth Muse: Women Writers and the Poetry of Common Life....Pages 185-199
Every Poet Her Own Drawing Master: Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward and ut pictura poesis....Pages 200-214
Ann Yearsley and the Distribution of Genius in Early Romantic Culture....Pages 215-230
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The Infatuated Worlds of Thomas Chatterton....Pages 233-241
Thomas Rowlie Preeste....Pages 242-255
‘In Albion’s Ancient Days’: George Richards and the Dilemmas of Patriot Gothic....Pages 256-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-276