J.R. Watson is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Durham. He is author of Wordsworth's Vital Soul, English Poetry of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830, The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and The English Hymn, and the editor of anthologies, most recently An Annotated Anthology of Hymns (2002).

'Watson has produced a work that is interesting, engaging and extremely informative. He deals with a complex subject clearly and he powerfully conveys the importance of war in the writing and thinking of those he studies'. - Professor Simon Bainbridge, School of English and Philosophy, Keele University

• Introduction Ways of Seeing War 1793 1793 and After 1795-1802 The Peace of Amiens and After, 1802-5 Poetry and the Army: The War, 1807-8 Cintra and Corunna The Last Years Ways of Seeing War: The Poets Ways of Seeing War: The Soldiers Afterwords: De Qunicey, Ruskin, Hardy Bibliography Index