Synopses & Reviews
Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as Lakers and Cockneys, the diverse regional forms of English Romanticism are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austens Chawton, this book offers a first reconfiguration of Romantic culture in terms of English regional identity.
Synopsis
Foreword List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Preface; R.Holmes Introduction; N.Roe PART I: LANDSCAPES AND LEGENDS 'More wondrous far than Egypt's boasted pyramids': The South West's Megaliths in the Romantic Period; J.Parker 'Al under the wyllowe tree': Chatterton and the Ecology of the West Country; N.Groom PART II: THE BRISTOL SCHOOL: COTTLE, COLERIDGE, AND THEIR CIRCLES Joseph Cottle and West-Country Romanticism; R.Cronin William Gilbert and his Bristol Circle 1788-98; P.Cheshire S.T. Coleridge, Joseph Cottle, and Some Bristol Baptists, 1794-96; T.Whelan Coleridge's Bristol and West Country Radicalism; P.J.Kitson Radical Bible: Coleridge's 1790s West Country Politics; A.J.Harding PART III: IMAGINING THE WEST COUNTRY Wordsworth's 1793 Journey to the West Country and Wales; C.K.Walker Coleridge in Devon; G.Davidson Southey's West Country; L.Pratt Romantic Hydrography: Tide and Transit in 'Tintern Abbey'; D.W.Davies The Road Not Taken: Robert Bloomfield's Wye Valley and the Poetic Imagination; T.Fulford PART IV: IN PURSUIT OF SPRING 'The Outset of Life': Shelley, Hazlitt, the West Country, and the Revolutionary Imagination; M.O'Neill 'Over the Dartmoor Black': John Keats and the West Country; N.Roe Going Westward: William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas; S.Yoshikawa Afterword; T.Mayberry Index
About the Author
NICHOLAS ROE is Professor of English at St Andrews University, UK. He is the author of Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years (1988), John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (1997), The Politics of Nature: William Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries (2002), and Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt (2005).
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Preface--R.Holmes
Introduction--N.Roe
PART I: LANDSCAPES AND LEGENDS
More wondrous far than Egypts boasted pyramids: The South Wests Megaliths in the Romantic Period--J.Parker
Al under the wyllowe tree: Chatterton and the Ecology of the West Country--N.Groom
PART II: THE BRISTOL SCHOOL: COTTLE, COLERIDGE, AND THEIR CIRCLES
Joseph Cottle and West-Country Romanticism--R.Cronin
William Gilbert and his Bristol Circle 1788-98--P.Cheshire
S.T. Coleridge, Joseph Cottle, and Some Bristol Baptists, 1794-96--T.Whelan
Coleridges Bristol and West Country Radicalism--P.J.Kitson
Radical Bible: Coleridges 1790s West Country Politics--A.J.Harding
PART III: IMAGINING THE WEST COUNTRY
Wordsworths 1793 Journey to the West Country and Wales--C.K.Walker
Coleridge in Devon--G.Davidson
Southeys West Country--L.Pratt
Romantic Hydrography: Tide and Transit in Tintern Abbey--D.W.Davies
The Road Not Taken: Robert Bloomfields Wye Valley and the Poetic Imagination--T.Fulford
PART IV: IN PURSUIT OF SPRING
The Outset of Life: Shelley, Hazlitt, the West Country, and the Revolutionary Imagination--M.ONeill
Over the Dartmoor Black: John Keats and the West Country--N.Roe
Going Westward: William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas--S.Yoshikawa
Afterword--T.Mayberry
Index