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“Of Chivalry and Deeds of Might”: Reviving F. G. Stephens’s “Lost” Arthurian Poem
Robert Wilkes explores the theme of male homosociality in a newly discovered poem by Frederic George Stephens. Although scholars have recognized that...
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Imitatio Mariae oder: Jungfräulichkeit als Charisma und Kunst
Zur Hyperdulie, der Vorzugsverehrung Marias, gibt es in der Jungfrau von Orleans ein Pendant in Gestalt eines Lebensentwurfs: die imitatio Mariae. In...
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Barbauld (née Aikin), Anna Lætitia (also Letitia)
Anna Lætitia (also Letitia) Barbauld (née Aikin 1743–1825) was a liberal English Dissenter with a wide social network, both inside and outside the...
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Southey, Spain, and Romantic Apostasy
William Wordsworth’s interest in Spanish affairs arose with the news of the Spanish Bourbon abdications at Bayonne in May 1808. Those events...
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Coleridge’s Poetic Dispensation
This chapter proceeds roughly chronologically through several of Coleridge’s minor works of the 1790s, reading them in light of the reactionary...
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The ‘Crazy Clock’ of York: Collapsing Time and Unstable Reality in James Montgomery’s Urban Topographic Poetry
This chapter offers an account of James Montgomery’s poetic descriptions of York, written from his cell beneath York Castle in 1795 where he had been...
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‘And Is This Death?’: ‘Seeing’ the Unseen, and Visionary Experimentation (1816–20)
This chapter provides close readings of Laon and Cythna (1817), ‘Ozymandias’ (1818), ‘Ode to the West Wind’ (1819), ‘The Sensitive-Plant’ (1820) and...
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Women Readers
The Romantic era in Britain witnessed the exponential expansion of women’s participation in the literary marketplace. By the middle of the 1790s, the...
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Coda: Print Proliferation and the Invention of the Artist
The coda considers how William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelley and John Keats came belatedly to prominence by resisting their...
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Publishing Music by Subscription in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Concertos of Charles Avison
One of the most valuable resources available to researchers of eighteenth-century social history are the lists of subscribers attached to various...
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The Odd(est) Brontë: Portrait(s) of Emily as a Young Author
There is a paradoxical contrast between the quiet life of Emily Brontë and her passionate fiction offers no complete picture of the young woman in...
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The Labouring-Class Bird
This chapter examines the ways in which eighteenth-century labouring-class poets adapt the bird-bard trope to portray the robin as a symbol of...
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‘Where the Eternal Are’: Adonais (1821)
This chapter argues that Shelley’s elegy for John Keats, Adonais (1821), represents his most sustained, and accomplished, attempt to ‘illumine’ (l....
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‘The Merit of her Patriotism’: Charlotte Corday in British Drama, 1794–1804
In 1794 and 1804 respectively, French republican Charlotte Corday, assassin of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, received representation at the Crow...
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Chapter Six: Refashioning Authorship’s Purview
This chapter looks at three prominent authors who worked in concert with interlocking networks to reconfigure the circumstances of literary...
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Conclusion
The balloon seemed to combine something from an imaginative world of myth while being itself, at the same time, a product of modern industry. As has...
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Thoughts on the Churchyard and the Fortunes of the Baroque from Balde and Gryphius to C. H. Sisson
When C. H. Sisson placed a translation of a long German poem at the midpoint of his volume God Bless Karl Marx! (1987), he not only gave the book its...
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Perceiving More than Perception
Given that, by c. 1766, Blake had experienced ‘his first vision’ of ‘bright angelic wings bespangling … like stars,’ and, by c. 1809, in middle age,...