Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism

Lynda Pratt is Reader in Romanticism and Director of the Centre for Regional Cultures in the School of English, University of Nottingham, UK.

'This sparkling volume of essays will restore Southey to his proper place as one of the three Lake Poets. Too often passed over in favour of Wordsworth and Coleridge, he was, as the contributors to the volume so convincingly demonstrate, in important ways more central to the literature of the period than either.' Professor Richard Cronin, University of Glasgow, UK ’Considered together, the essays do the significant job of demonstrating [Southey's] importance in literary history and his unique approach to English Romanticism.’ Brontë Studies ’As a thorough and wide-ranging examination of Southey's influence, Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism has the added virtue of an excellent introduction... Readers unfamiliar with Southey's writings will appreciate this attention to details that are too often omitted in current forms of literary criticism... All of the essays [...] offer interesting and rewarding insights and, in general, make an effective case for devoting more critical attention to Southey as a major Romantic figure. Overall, this is a valuable addition to Southey and Romanticism studies...’ Journal of British Studies

• General Editors’ Preface, Vincent Newey, Joanne Shattock; Introduction, Lynda Pratt; Chapter 1 Southey’s Literary History, David Fairer; Chapter 2 Love and Madness: Southey Editing Chatterton, Nick Groom; Chapter 3 Beneath High Romanticism: ‘Southeian’ Orientations in De Quincey, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts; Chapter 4 Feasts and Fasts: Robert Southey and the Politics of Calendar, Paul Jarman; Chapter 5 Poemets and Poemlings: Robert Southey’s Minority Interest, Nicola Trott; Chapter 6 ‘Bob Southey! – Poet Laureate’: Public and Private in Southey’s Poems of 1816, Mark Storey; Chapter 7 Subservient Talents? Robert Southey as a Public Moralist, David M. Craig; Chapter 8 ‘Green Savannahs’ or ‘savage lands’: Wordsworth’s and Southey’s Romantic America, Carol Bolton; Chapter 9 Southey’s Madoc: Reimagining the Conquest of America, Nigel Leask; Chapter 10 Conquest and Slavery in Robert Southey’s Madoc and James Montgomery’s The West Indies, Joselyn M. Almeida; Chapter 11 Words and Things: Southey’s East and the Materiality of Oriental Discourse, Diego Saglia; Chapter 12 Plants, Pagodas and Penises: Southey’s Oriental Imports, Tim Fulford; Chapter 13 His nights among the dead were passed: Robert Southey’s Dreams, W. A. Speck; Chapter 14 Family Misfortunes? The posthumous editing of Robert Southey, Lynda Pratt;