Arthur Bradley is a lecturer in the Department of English at Chester College of Higher Education, UK. Alan Rawes is a lecturer in the Department of English at Canterbury Christ Church University College, Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Byron's Poetic Experimentation (Ashgate, 2000) and co-editor of English Romanticism and the Celtic World (Cambridge, 2002).

’This endlessly fascinating and suggestive collection of essays tackles the question of method...The range of these essays is satisfyingly varied and many of them are by Romantic biographers...’ BARS Bulletin

• Contents: Introduction: Romanticizing biography, Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes; 'The tears shed or unshed': Romantic poetry and questions of biography, Michael O'Neill; John Clare: prologue to a new life, Jonathan Bate; Romantic biography: the case of Robert Southey, Mark Storey; A tale of two titles, Kenneth R. Johnston; Austen, 'enigmatic lacunae' and the art of biography, Joe Bray; 'That perverse passion' and Benita Eisler's 'Byronic' biography of Byron, Alan Rawes; Remaking Romantic Scotland: Lockhart's biographies of Burns and Scott, Gerard Carruthers; Self-possession and gender in Romantic literary biography, Julian North; Keats's frailty: the body and biography, Jennifer Wallace; 'Winging itself with laughter': Byron and Shelley after deconstruction, Arthur Bradley; Writing biography that is not Romantic, Ralph Pite; Bibliography; Index.

Arthur Bradley is a lecturer in the Department of English at Chester College of Higher Education, UK. Alan Rawes is a lecturer in the Department of English at Canterbury Christ Church University College, Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Byron's Poetic Experimentation (Ashgate, 2000) and co-editor of English Romanticism and the Celtic World (Cambridge, 2002).

’This endlessly fascinating and suggestive collection of essays tackles the question of method...The range of these essays is satisfyingly varied and many of them are by Romantic biographers...’ BARS Bulletin

• Contents: Introduction: Romanticizing biography, Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes; 'The tears shed or unshed': Romantic poetry and questions of biography, Michael O'Neill; John Clare: prologue to a new life, Jonathan Bate; Romantic biography: the case of Robert Southey, Mark Storey; A tale of two titles, Kenneth R. Johnston; Austen, 'enigmatic lacunae' and the art of biography, Joe Bray; 'That perverse passion' and Benita Eisler's 'Byronic' biography of Byron, Alan Rawes; Remaking Romantic Scotland: Lockhart's biographies of Burns and Scott, Gerard Carruthers; Self-possession and gender in Romantic literary biography, Julian North; Keats's frailty: the body and biography, Jennifer Wallace; 'Winging itself with laughter': Byron and Shelley after deconstruction, Arthur Bradley; Writing biography that is not Romantic, Ralph Pite; Bibliography; Index.

Arthur Bradley is a lecturer in the Department of English at Chester College of Higher Education, UK. Alan Rawes is a lecturer in the Department of English at Canterbury Christ Church University College, Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Byron's Poetic Experimentation (Ashgate, 2000) and co-editor of English Romanticism and the Celtic World (Cambridge, 2002).

’This endlessly fascinating and suggestive collection of essays tackles the question of method...The range of these essays is satisfyingly varied and many of them are by Romantic biographers...’ BARS Bulletin

• Contents: Introduction: Romanticizing biography, Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes; 'The tears shed or unshed': Romantic poetry and questions of biography, Michael O'Neill; John Clare: prologue to a new life, Jonathan Bate; Romantic biography: the case of Robert Southey, Mark Storey; A tale of two titles, Kenneth R. Johnston; Austen, 'enigmatic lacunae' and the art of biography, Joe Bray; 'That perverse passion' and Benita Eisler's 'Byronic' biography of Byron, Alan Rawes; Remaking Romantic Scotland: Lockhart's biographies of Burns and Scott, Gerard Carruthers; Self-possession and gender in Romantic literary biography, Julian North; Keats's frailty: the body and biography, Jennifer Wallace; 'Winging itself with laughter': Byron and Shelley after deconstruction, Arthur Bradley; Writing biography that is not Romantic, Ralph Pite; Bibliography; Index.