A Companion to Romantic Poetry Book

List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction (Charles Mahoney).

Part I Forms and Genres.

1 Mournful Ditties and Merry Measures: Feeling and Form in the Romantic Short Lyric and Song (Michael O'Neill).

2 Archaist-Innovators: The Couplet from Churchill to Browning (Simon Jarvis).

3 The Temptations of Tercets (Charles Mahoney).

4 To Scorn or To "Scorn not the Sonnet" (Daniel Robinson).

5 Ballad Collection and Lyric Collectives (Steve Newman).

6 Satire, Subjectivity, and Acknowledgment (William Flesch).

7 "Stirring shades": The Romantic Ode and Its Afterlives (Esther Schor).

8 Pastures New and Old: The Romantic Afterlife of Pastoral Elegy (Christopher R. Miller).

9 The Romantic Georgic and the Work of Writing (Tim Burke).

10 Shepherding Culture and the Romantic Pastoral (John Bugg).

11 Ear and Eye: Counteracting Senses in Loco-descriptive Poetry (Adam Potkay).

Part II Production and Distribution, Schools and Movements.

12 "Other voices speak": The Poetic Conversations of Byron and Shelley (Simon Bainbridge).

13 The Thrush in the Theater: Keats and Hazlitt at the Surrey Institution (Sarah M. Zimmerman).

14 Laboring-Class Poetry in the Romantic Era (Michael Scrivener).

15 Celtic Romantic Poetry: Scotland, Ireland, Wales (Jane Moore).

16 Anglo-Jewish Romantic Poetry (Karen Weisman).

17 Leigh Hunt's Cockney Canon: Sociability and Subversion from Homer to Hyperion (Michael Tomko).

18 Poetry, Conversation, Community: Annus Mirabilis, 1797–1798 (Emily Sun).

Part III Contemporary Contexts and Perspectives.

19 Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Improvisation in Romantic Poetry (Angela Esterhammer).

20 Celebrity, Gender, and the Death of the Poet: The Mystery of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Ghislaine McDayter).

21 Poetry and Illustration: "Amicable strife" (Sophie Thomas).

22 Romanticism, Sport, and Late Georgian Poetry (John Strachan).

23 "The science of feelings": Wordsworth's Experimental Poetry (Ross Hamilton).

24 Romanticism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism (Laura Quinney).

25 Milton and the Romantics (Gordon Teskey).

Part IV Critical Issues and Current Debates.

26 "The feel of not to feel it," or the Pleasures of Enduring Form (Anne-Lise François).

27 Romantic Poetry and Literary Theory: The Case of "A slumber did my spirit seal" (Marc Redfield).

28 "Strange utterance": The (Un)Natural Language of the Sublime in Wordsworth's Prelude (Timothy Bahti).

29 The Matter of Genre in the Romantic Sublime (Ian Balfour).

30 Sexual Politics and the Performance of Gender in Romantic Poetry (James Najarian).

31 Blake's Jerusalem: Friendship with Albion (Karen Swann).

32 The World without Us: Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Imagining Nature (Bridget Keegan).

33 Ethical Supernaturalism: The Romanticism of Wordsworth, Heaney, and Lacan (Guinn Batten).

34 The Persistence of Romanticism (Willard Spiegelman).

Index.