Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars,A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity ofRomantic poetry and shows why it continues to hold such a vital andindispensable place in the history of English literature.* Breaking free from the boundaries of the traditionally-studiedauthors, the collection takes a revitalized approach to the fieldand brings together some of the most exciting work being done atthe present time* Emphasizes poetic form and technique rather than a biographicalapproach* Features essays on production and distribution and thedifferent schools and movements of Romantic Poetry* Introduces contemporary contexts and perspectives, as well asthe issues and debates that continue to drive scholarship in thefield* Presents the most comprehensive and compelling collection ofessays on British Romantic poetry currently available

List of Illustrations viiiNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xivIntroduction 1Charles MahoneyPart I Forms and Genres 71 Mournful Ditties and Merry Measures: Feeling and Form in theRomantic Short Lyric and Song 9Michael O'Neill2 Archaist-Innovators: The Couplet from Churchill to Browning25Simon Jarvis3 The Temptations of Tercets 44Charles Mahoney4 To Scorn or To "Scorn not the Sonnet" 62Daniel Robinson5 Ballad Collection and Lyric Collectives 78Steve Newman6 Satire, Subjectivity, and Acknowledgment 95William Flesch7 "Stirring shades": The Romantic Ode and ItsAfterlives 107Esther Schor8 Pastures New and Old: The Romantic Afterlife of Pastoral Elegy123Christopher R. Miller9 The Romantic Georgic and the Work of Writing 140Tim Burke10 Shepherding Culture and the Romantic Pastoral 159John Bugg11 Ear and Eye: Counteracting Senses in Loco-descriptive Poetry176Adam PotkayPart II Production and Distribution, Schools and Movements19512 "Other voices speak": The Poetic Conversations ofByron and Shelley 197Simon Bainbridge13 The Thrush in the Theater: Keats and Hazlitt at the SurreyInstitution 217Sarah M. Zimmerman14 Laboring-Class Poetry in the Romantic Era 234Michael Scrivener15 Celtic Romantic Poetry: Scotland, Ireland, Wales 251Jane Moore16 Anglo-Jewish Romantic Poetry 268Karen Weisman17 Leigh Hunt's Cockney Canon: Sociability and Subversionfrom Homer to Hyperion 285Michael Tomko18 Poetry, Conversation, Community: Annus Mirabilis,1797-1798 302Emily SunPart III Contemporary Contexts and Perspectives 31919 Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Improvisation in Romantic Poetry321Angela Esterhammer20 Celebrity, Gender, and the Death of the Poet: The Mystery ofLetitia Elizabeth Landon 337Ghislaine McDayter21 Poetry and Illustration: "Amicable strife"354Sophie Thomas22 Romanticism, Sport, and Late Georgian Poetry 374John Strachan23 "The science of feelings": Wordsworth'sExperimental Poetry 393Ross Hamilton24 Romanticism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism 412Laura Quinney25 Milton and the Romantics 425Gordon TeskeyPart IV Critical Issues and Current Debates 44326 "The feel of not to feel it," or the Pleasures ofEnduring Form 445Anne-Lise François27 Romantic Poetry and Literary Theory: The Case of "Aslumber did my spirit seal" 467Marc Redfield28 "Strange utterance": The (Un)Natural Language ofthe Sublime in Wordsworth's Prelude 483Timothy Bahti29 The Matter of Genre in the Romantic Sublime 503Ian Balfour30 Sexual Politics and the Performance of Gender in RomanticPoetry 521James Najarian31 Blake's Jerusalem: Friendship with Albion 538Karen Swann32 The World without Us: Romanticism, Environmentalism, andImagining Nature 554Bridget Keegan33 Ethical Supernaturalism: The Romanticism of Wordsworth,Heaney, and Lacan 572Guinn Batten34 The Persistence of Romanticism 589Willard SpiegelmanIndex 606