Richard Marggraf-Turley is Professor of English Literature at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of several books exploring themes from Medieval to Romantic literature and culture, and has also published a novel as well as a number of poetry collections.

Richard Marggraf Turley's study of the often neglected poet Barry Cornwall offers an interesting and informative supplement to the work of critics such as Jeffrey Cox and Nicholas Roe on the social, literary and invariably political contexts of John Keats's life and work.Philip Cox, Literature & History, Third Series 20/1

• AcknowledgementsNote on SourcesPrefaceIntroduction: Bubbles or gold on the Bounteous tree? Cornwall’s Celebrity1 ‘Breathing human Passion’: Cornwall and Popular romanticism2 ‘Slippery Steps of the temple of Fame’: Cornwall and Keats’s reputation3 Bright Stars and Close Bosom-Friends: Keats, Cornwall and ‘Cockney’ Politics4 The Scent of Strong-Smelling Phrases: Cornwall’s Popular eroticism5 Metropolitan Commissioners of lunacyAfterword – afterlivesSelect BibliographyIndexContents

Richard Marggraf-Turley is Professor of English Literature at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of several books exploring themes from Medieval to Romantic literature and culture, and has also published a novel as well as a number of poetry collections.

Richard Marggraf Turley's study of the often neglected poet Barry Cornwall offers an interesting and informative supplement to the work of critics such as Jeffrey Cox and Nicholas Roe on the social, literary and invariably political contexts of John Keats's life and work.Philip Cox, Literature & History, Third Series 20/1

• AcknowledgementsNote on SourcesPrefaceIntroduction: Bubbles or gold on the Bounteous tree? Cornwall’s Celebrity1 ‘Breathing human Passion’: Cornwall and Popular romanticism2 ‘Slippery Steps of the temple of Fame’: Cornwall and Keats’s reputation3 Bright Stars and Close Bosom-Friends: Keats, Cornwall and ‘Cockney’ Politics4 The Scent of Strong-Smelling Phrases: Cornwall’s Popular eroticism5 Metropolitan Commissioners of lunacyAfterword – afterlivesSelect BibliographyIndexContents

Richard Marggraf-Turley is Professor of English Literature at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of several books exploring themes from Medieval to Romantic literature and culture, and has also published a novel as well as a number of poetry collections.

Richard Marggraf Turley's study of the often neglected poet Barry Cornwall offers an interesting and informative supplement to the work of critics such as Jeffrey Cox and Nicholas Roe on the social, literary and invariably political contexts of John Keats's life and work.Philip Cox, Literature & History, Third Series 20/1

• AcknowledgementsNote on SourcesPrefaceIntroduction: Bubbles or gold on the Bounteous tree? Cornwall’s Celebrity1 ‘Breathing human Passion’: Cornwall and Popular romanticism2 ‘Slippery Steps of the temple of Fame’: Cornwall and Keats’s reputation3 Bright Stars and Close Bosom-Friends: Keats, Cornwall and ‘Cockney’ Politics4 The Scent of Strong-Smelling Phrases: Cornwall’s Popular eroticism5 Metropolitan Commissioners of lunacyAfterword – afterlivesSelect BibliographyIndexContents