Synopses & Reviews
Landscape descriptions examined in a wider context of eighteenth-century debates over liberty and authority.
Review
"No brief interpretation can do justice to Fulford's exceptionally rich and nuanced argument. His discussion of Wordsworth and Coleridge as continuators and radical revisers of their eighteenth-century predecessors are illuminating; the chapter on Wordsworth, the longest in the book, offers a convincing interpretation of Wordsworth's politico-poetical career. Throughout, Fulford's readings of texts, both in prose and verse, are subtle and generally compelling." John D. Baird, European Romantic Review"Fulford's achievement here should be applauded, and his historically informed analysis should generate much further discussion about the relationship between landscape poetry, politics, and history in the near future." Romantic Circles Reviews