Catherine E. Ross is Associate Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Tyler.

'With its original approach to the field, meticulous research, and persuasive evidence, Educating the Romantic Poets exemplifies the criteria and the spirit of the Marilyn Gaull Book Award. It is a book of erudition that no student of Romanticism can afford to ignore.' - Marilyn Gaull Book Award (2025) Review Committee

• PrefaceIntroduction England’s Public and Grammar Schools: First Lessons England’s Public and Grammar Schools: Lessons in Grammar, Memory, and Composition England’s Public and Grammar Schools: Lessons in Classical Literature, Rhetoric, Oratory, and Composition Training Religious Instruction and Worship in the Anglo-Classical Academy Oxford and Cambridge in the Romantic Period: “Operose ignorance” or “Good habits, and the principles of virtue and wisdom”? University Life The Curriculum of the English “Confessional” University: Heroes, Shepherds, and “Holding acquaintance with the stars" Pedagogies of Oxford and Cambridge in the Georgian Period The Educators of Oxford and Cambridge in the Georgian Period Leadership at Oxford and Cambridge Conclusions

Catherine E. Ross is Associate Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Tyler.

'With its original approach to the field, meticulous research, and persuasive evidence, Educating the Romantic Poets exemplifies the criteria and the spirit of the Marilyn Gaull Book Award. It is a book of erudition that no student of Romanticism can afford to ignore.' - Marilyn Gaull Book Award (2025) Review Committee

• PrefaceIntroduction England’s Public and Grammar Schools: First Lessons England’s Public and Grammar Schools: Lessons in Grammar, Memory, and Composition England’s Public and Grammar Schools: Lessons in Classical Literature, Rhetoric, Oratory, and Composition Training Religious Instruction and Worship in the Anglo-Classical Academy Oxford and Cambridge in the Romantic Period: “Operose ignorance” or “Good habits, and the principles of virtue and wisdom”? University Life The Curriculum of the English “Confessional” University: Heroes, Shepherds, and “Holding acquaintance with the stars" Pedagogies of Oxford and Cambridge in the Georgian Period The Educators of Oxford and Cambridge in the Georgian Period Leadership at Oxford and Cambridge Conclusions

Catherine E. Ross is Associate Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Tyler.

'With its original approach to the field, meticulous research, and persuasive evidence, Educating the Romantic Poets exemplifies the criteria and the spirit of the Marilyn Gaull Book Award. It is a book of erudition that no student of Romanticism can afford to ignore.' - Marilyn Gaull Book Award (2025) Review Committee

• PrefaceIntroduction England’s Public and Grammar Schools: First Lessons England’s Public and Grammar Schools: Lessons in Grammar, Memory, and Composition England’s Public and Grammar Schools: Lessons in Classical Literature, Rhetoric, Oratory, and Composition Training Religious Instruction and Worship in the Anglo-Classical Academy Oxford and Cambridge in the Romantic Period: “Operose ignorance” or “Good habits, and the principles of virtue and wisdom”? University Life The Curriculum of the English “Confessional” University: Heroes, Shepherds, and “Holding acquaintance with the stars" Pedagogies of Oxford and Cambridge in the Georgian Period The Educators of Oxford and Cambridge in the Georgian Period Leadership at Oxford and Cambridge Conclusions