Madeleine Callaghan is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield.

‘The fact that eternity remains fundamentally unknowable to these poets means that, for Callaghan, imaginative and diverse conceptualisations of eternity are allowed to proliferate: her work skilfully illustrates poetry’s status as a mutable medium that enables these poets to theorise, posit, and explore such vast and intangible concepts.’ Catherine Rose Maw, university of Newcastle

• Introduction: ‘Demand No Direr Name’: Eternity in British Romantic Poetry 1. ‘All is done as I have told’: Blake’s Eternal Prophecy 2. Wordsworth: Sight, Vision, and Eternity 3. Coleridge and the Hunger for Eternity 4. ‘Heaven’s Brandy’: Byron’s Changing Eternity 5. Desire and Eternity in Shelley’s Poetry 6. Defying Eternity in Keats’s Poetry 7. Hemans’s Records of Woman and the Eternity of Female Suffering Afterword: ‘To Open the Eternal Worlds'

Madeleine Callaghan is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield.

‘The fact that eternity remains fundamentally unknowable to these poets means that, for Callaghan, imaginative and diverse conceptualisations of eternity are allowed to proliferate: her work skilfully illustrates poetry’s status as a mutable medium that enables these poets to theorise, posit, and explore such vast and intangible concepts.’ Catherine Rose Maw, university of Newcastle

• Introduction: ‘Demand No Direr Name’: Eternity in British Romantic Poetry 1. ‘All is done as I have told’: Blake’s Eternal Prophecy 2. Wordsworth: Sight, Vision, and Eternity 3. Coleridge and the Hunger for Eternity 4. ‘Heaven’s Brandy’: Byron’s Changing Eternity 5. Desire and Eternity in Shelley’s Poetry 6. Defying Eternity in Keats’s Poetry 7. Hemans’s Records of Woman and the Eternity of Female Suffering Afterword: ‘To Open the Eternal Worlds'

Madeleine Callaghan is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield.

‘The fact that eternity remains fundamentally unknowable to these poets means that, for Callaghan, imaginative and diverse conceptualisations of eternity are allowed to proliferate: her work skilfully illustrates poetry’s status as a mutable medium that enables these poets to theorise, posit, and explore such vast and intangible concepts.’ Catherine Rose Maw, university of Newcastle

• Introduction: ‘Demand No Direr Name’: Eternity in British Romantic Poetry 1. ‘All is done as I have told’: Blake’s Eternal Prophecy 2. Wordsworth: Sight, Vision, and Eternity 3. Coleridge and the Hunger for Eternity 4. ‘Heaven’s Brandy’: Byron’s Changing Eternity 5. Desire and Eternity in Shelley’s Poetry 6. Defying Eternity in Keats’s Poetry 7. Hemans’s Records of Woman and the Eternity of Female Suffering Afterword: ‘To Open the Eternal Worlds'