PHILIP SHAW is Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. He is the editor of Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1789-1822.

'Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination is a stimulating and exciting book, written with authority and intelligence...' - Simon Bainbridge, Department of English, Keele University 'This study of the British literary response to Waterloo is a book about endings: the ending of the long war with France, the ending of forty thousand lives...an ambitious and intelligent book from which we can all learn.' - Gavin Edwards, University of Glamorgan Literature and History ' [A] persuasive and thorough analysis.' - Gillen D'Arcy Wood, University of Illinois, USA

• List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Return to Waterloo Walter Scott: The Discipline of History Exhibiting War: Panoramas and Battle Tours Southey's Vision of Command Coleridge: The Imagination at War Wordsworth's Abyss of Weakness 'For Want of a Better Cause': Lord Byron's War with Posterity Conclusion Bibliography Index