The book's bold simplicity of focus is balanced by its interest in the complexities of representation, and the result is a study that sheds new light on neglected images and a refocused light on some prominent icons of the Romantic canon. Robert Lapp in European Romantic Review 9:1(Winter 1998)

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: the poets and the conqueror; 1. A 'conqueror of kings' and a 'deliverer of men': the revolutionary figure of Napoleon in the writing of Coleridge, Southey and Landor; 2. 'In such strength of usurpation': Wordsworth's Napoleonic imagination; 3. 'Historiographer[s] to the King of Hell': The Lake poets' Peninsular campaign; 4. Staging history: Byron and Napoleon, 1813–1814; 5. 'The greatest event of modern times'; 6. 'A proud and full answer': Hazlitt's Napoleonic riposte; Conclusion: The Age of Bronze; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

The book's bold simplicity of focus is balanced by its interest in the complexities of representation, and the result is a study that sheds new light on neglected images and a refocused light on some prominent icons of the Romantic canon. Robert Lapp in European Romantic Review 9:1(Winter 1998)

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: the poets and the conqueror; 1. A 'conqueror of kings' and a 'deliverer of men': the revolutionary figure of Napoleon in the writing of Coleridge, Southey and Landor; 2. 'In such strength of usurpation': Wordsworth's Napoleonic imagination; 3. 'Historiographer[s] to the King of Hell': The Lake poets' Peninsular campaign; 4. Staging history: Byron and Napoleon, 1813–1814; 5. 'The greatest event of modern times'; 6. 'A proud and full answer': Hazlitt's Napoleonic riposte; Conclusion: The Age of Bronze; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

The book's bold simplicity of focus is balanced by its interest in the complexities of representation, and the result is a study that sheds new light on neglected images and a refocused light on some prominent icons of the Romantic canon. Robert Lapp in European Romantic Review 9:1(Winter 1998)

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: the poets and the conqueror; 1. A 'conqueror of kings' and a 'deliverer of men': the revolutionary figure of Napoleon in the writing of Coleridge, Southey and Landor; 2. 'In such strength of usurpation': Wordsworth's Napoleonic imagination; 3. 'Historiographer[s] to the King of Hell': The Lake poets' Peninsular campaign; 4. Staging history: Byron and Napoleon, 1813–1814; 5. 'The greatest event of modern times'; 6. 'A proud and full answer': Hazlitt's Napoleonic riposte; Conclusion: The Age of Bronze; Notes; Bibliography; Index.