English Romantic Writers and the West Country

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
‘More wondrous far than Egypt’s boasted pyramids’: the South West’s Megaliths in the Romantic Period....Pages 15-36
‘Al under the wyllowe tree’: Chatterton and the Ecology of the West Country....Pages 37-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Joseph Cottle and West Country Romanticism....Pages 65-78
William Gilbert and his Bristol Circle, 1788–98....Pages 79-98
S. T. Coleridge, Joseph Cottle, and Some Bristol Baptists, 1794–96....Pages 99-114
Coleridge’s Bristol and West Country Radicalism....Pages 115-128
Radical Bible: Coleridge’s 1790s West Country Politics....Pages 129-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Wordsworth’s 1793 Journey to the West Country and Wales....Pages 155-175
Coleridge in Devon....Pages 176-200
Southey’s West Country....Pages 201-217
Romantic Hydrography: Tide and Transit in ‘Tintern Abbey’....Pages 218-236
The Road Not Taken: Robert Bloomfield’s Wye Valley and the Poetic Imagination....Pages 237-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
‘The Outset of Life’: Shelley, Hazlitt, the West Country, and the Revolutionary Imagination....Pages 257-270
‘Over the Dartmoor Black’: John Keats and the West Country....Pages 271-288
Going Westward: William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, and Edward Thomas....Pages 289-301
Afterword....Pages 302-303
Back Matter....Pages 304-323