JACQUELINE M. LABBE teaches and researches in the area of British Romantic Poetry and Poetics at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of the first scholarly book on Charlotte Smith's poetry and of numerous articles on Smith and Wordsworth. She has written three monographs, edited and contributed to four major collections of essays, and edited Smith's poetry and her novel The Old Manor House (1794).

'Jacqueline Labbe's work on Charlotte Smith is second to none...Labbe's is a bold vision, and one likely to change the way in which we view early Romanticism.' - Claire Knowles, European Romantic Review

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Writing the Lyrical Ballad: Hybridity and Self-Reflexity Mediating History: War Poetry Subject to Place, Subjected by Poetry Modelling the Romantic Poet 1807: The Art of Poetry on a New Plan Conclusion Bibliography Index