Synopses & Reviews
Taking into account recent developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of
The Politics of Nature enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's acclaimed study of Romanticism. Hitherto marginal figures are restored to prominence, and there is new material on William Wordsworth's radical years.
About the Author
Nicholas Roe is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Table of Contents
Introduction *
Part I * 'Unremembered Kindness': George Dyer and the Poets * Robert Southey, Pantisocracy, and the Poet's Myth * Living Without God in the World: Lamb, Coleridge, Wordsworth *
Part II * John Thelwall's
Essay, Towards a Definition of Animal Vitality * The Prison Diary of John Augustus Bonney *
Part III * Wordsworth's Secrecy: Gorsas and 'The Philanthropist' * The Politics of the Wye Valley: Re-Placing 'Tintern Abbey' * 'Adam of a New World':
Lyrical Ballads and
The Prelude * Epilogue: The Noise of the Sea