Morton D. Paley is a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkely. A leading figure in the Romantics field, his publications include Energy and Imagination (OUP 1970), William Blake (Phaidon 1978), The Continuing City (OUP 1983), The Apocalyptic Sublime (Yale UP 1986), Coleridge's Later Poetry (OUP 1996), and Portraits of Coleridge (OUP 1999).

there is much that is familiar in these analyses, yet much that is new, subtle, and unsettling. It provides an admirable example of what careful scholarship, untainted by tendentious purposes, can unveil both in the poems and in previous schemes of their interpretation ... Paley ... has encyclopedic knowledge of the particulars of literary and political history; and he has the imagination to arrange them in revealing patterns. Anyone interested in the historical location of these works, in their responsiveness to and echos of the discourses of their day, and in their answerability must mine this book.

• Introduction ; 1. Blake ; 2. Coleridge ; 3. Wordsworth ; 4. Byron ; 5. Shelley ; 6. Keats ; Epilogue ; Select Bibliography ; Index

Morton D. Paley is a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkely. A leading figure in the Romantics field, his publications include Energy and Imagination (OUP 1970), William Blake (Phaidon 1978), The Continuing City (OUP 1983), The Apocalyptic Sublime (Yale UP 1986), Coleridge's Later Poetry (OUP 1996), and Portraits of Coleridge (OUP 1999).

there is much that is familiar in these analyses, yet much that is new, subtle, and unsettling. It provides an admirable example of what careful scholarship, untainted by tendentious purposes, can unveil both in the poems and in previous schemes of their interpretation ... Paley ... has encyclopedic knowledge of the particulars of literary and political history; and he has the imagination to arrange them in revealing patterns. Anyone interested in the historical location of these works, in their responsiveness to and echos of the discourses of their day, and in their answerability must mine this book.

• Introduction ; 1. Blake ; 2. Coleridge ; 3. Wordsworth ; 4. Byron ; 5. Shelley ; 6. Keats ; Epilogue ; Select Bibliography ; Index