STUART ANDREWS Librarian of the Wells & Mendip Museum, UK.

"Important ... Robert Southey is more archive than interpretation. But the accumulating detail on the Catholic question also makes a qualitative difference, showing how Southey the poet laureate grew from Southey the poet." - Studies in Romanticism "The history, politics and religion of [Andrews'] title combine to produce a cogent narrative of Southey's engagement with contemporary debates about Catholic emancipation." - Romanticism "The history, politics, and religion of his title combine to produce a cogent narrative of Southey's engagement with contemporary debates about Catholic emancipation." - Carol Bolton, Senior Lecturer in English, Loughborough University, UK

• The Shadow of 1798: Rebellion and Union Poet as Traveller: Lisbon, Madrid, Dublin Poet as Journalist: Weeklies, Monthlies, Quarterlies Jacobins and Jesuits: Wat Tyler and Other Ghosts End of Controversy? Monks, Friars, Methodists Laureate Historian: Southey and 'Smooth Butler' 'Rome's Brazen Serpent': Milner as Merlin Supporting Batteries: Southey Defended Eve of Emancipation: The Quarterly on Ireland After the Act: Southey and Anglican Englishness