'This is an important, groundbreaking study in its reconceptualisation of Romantic poetics and in the long overdue critical and historical attention it pays to a fertile corpus of poetry published in radical newspapers and periodicals from the 1830s to the 1890s … this is a paradigm-breaking study that rewrites traditional accounts of Romantic poetics and also re-maps the literary-poetic landscape of the nineteenth century.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: Romantic studies as a unified field; Part I. A Dialectic of Romanticism: 1. The communitarian lyric in the dialectic of Romanticism; 2. Ballad, lyrical ballad, lyric; 3. The sun and the tree: lyrics of liberty; Part II. Interventionist Poetics in the Tradition of Romanticism: 4. Allen Davenport on the threshold of Chartism; 5. The forms of Chartist poetry and poetics: 1838–46; 6. Labour's laureates: Allen Davenport, Thomas Cooper, and Ernest Jones in 1846; 7. W. J. Linton and William Morris: Republican and Socialist poetics; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

'This is an important, groundbreaking study in its reconceptualisation of Romantic poetics and in the long overdue critical and historical attention it pays to a fertile corpus of poetry published in radical newspapers and periodicals from the 1830s to the 1890s … this is a paradigm-breaking study that rewrites traditional accounts of Romantic poetics and also re-maps the literary-poetic landscape of the nineteenth century.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: Romantic studies as a unified field; Part I. A Dialectic of Romanticism: 1. The communitarian lyric in the dialectic of Romanticism; 2. Ballad, lyrical ballad, lyric; 3. The sun and the tree: lyrics of liberty; Part II. Interventionist Poetics in the Tradition of Romanticism: 4. Allen Davenport on the threshold of Chartism; 5. The forms of Chartist poetry and poetics: 1838–46; 6. Labour's laureates: Allen Davenport, Thomas Cooper, and Ernest Jones in 1846; 7. W. J. Linton and William Morris: Republican and Socialist poetics; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

'This is an important, groundbreaking study in its reconceptualisation of Romantic poetics and in the long overdue critical and historical attention it pays to a fertile corpus of poetry published in radical newspapers and periodicals from the 1830s to the 1890s … this is a paradigm-breaking study that rewrites traditional accounts of Romantic poetics and also re-maps the literary-poetic landscape of the nineteenth century.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: Romantic studies as a unified field; Part I. A Dialectic of Romanticism: 1. The communitarian lyric in the dialectic of Romanticism; 2. Ballad, lyrical ballad, lyric; 3. The sun and the tree: lyrics of liberty; Part II. Interventionist Poetics in the Tradition of Romanticism: 4. Allen Davenport on the threshold of Chartism; 5. The forms of Chartist poetry and poetics: 1838–46; 6. Labour's laureates: Allen Davenport, Thomas Cooper, and Ernest Jones in 1846; 7. W. J. Linton and William Morris: Republican and Socialist poetics; Conclusion; Notes; Index.