Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries

Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montfort University, UK. His most recent publications include The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, and Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1811-38. He is currently editing the Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy.

"In this well-researched and wide-ranging study, Tim Fulford joins critics such as Jeffrey Cox, Jon Mee and Paul Magnuson who instead see Romantic writing as a collaborative endeavour, investigating small writing communities (pejoratively dubbed 'schools' by Romantic-era reviewers) or twosomes. ... Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries displays an impressive command of material with admirable alertness to the effects on the writers' work of the 'micro-historical' as well as larger-scale social and political developments ... ." (Kim Wheatley, Review of English Studies, Vol. 67, June, 2016)

• Introduction PART I: "A SECT OF POETS": THE DIALECT OF FRIENDSHIP IN SOUTHEY, COLERIDGE, AND THEIR CIRCLES 1. The Politicization of Allusion in Early Romanticism: Mary Robinson and the Bristol Poets 2. Brothers in Lore: Fraternity and Priority in Thalaba, "Christabel," "Kubla Khan" 3. Signifying Nothing: Coleridge's Visions of 1816 - Anti-Allusion and the Poetic Fragment 4. Positioning The Missionary: Poetic Circles and the Development of Colonial Romance PART II: THE "RURAL TRIBE": LABORING CLASS POETS AND THE TRADITION 5. The Production of a Poet: Robert Bloomfield, his Patrons, and his Publishers 6. Iamb yet what Iamb: Allusion and Delusion in John Clare's Asylum Poems PART III: THE LINGO OF LONDONERS: THE "COCKNEY SCHOOL" 7. Romanticism Lite: Talking, Walking and Name Dropping in the Cockney Essay 8. Allusions of Grandeur: Prophetic Authority and the Romantic City