A Companion to Romantic Poetry

List of Illustrations viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction 1
Charles Mahoney

Part I Forms and Genres 7

1 Mournful Ditties and Merry Measures: Feeling and Form in the Romantic Short Lyric and Song 9
Michael O'Neill

2 Archaist-Innovators: The Couplet from Churchill to Browning 25
Simon Jarvis

3 The Temptations of Tercets 44
Charles Mahoney

4 To Scorn or To "Scorn not the Sonnet" 62
Daniel Robinson

5 Ballad Collection and Lyric Collectives 78
Steve Newman

6 Satire, Subjectivity, and Acknowledgment 95
William Flesch

7 "Stirring shades": The Romantic Ode and Its Afterlives 107
Esther Schor

8 Pastures New and Old: The Romantic Afterlife of Pastoral Elegy 123
Christopher R. Miller

9 The Romantic Georgic and the Work of Writing 140
Tim Burke

10 Shepherding Culture and the Romantic Pastoral 159
John Bugg

11 Ear and Eye: Counteracting Senses in Loco-descriptive Poetry 176
Adam Potkay

Part II Production and Distribution, Schools and Movements 195

12 "Other voices speak": The Poetic Conversations of Byron and Shelley 197
Simon Bainbridge

13 The Thrush in the Theater: Keats and Hazlitt at the Surrey Institution 217
Sarah M. Zimmerman

14 Laboring-Class Poetry in the Romantic Era 234
Michael Scrivener

15 Celtic Romantic Poetry: Scotland, Ireland, Wales 251
Jane Moore

16 Anglo-Jewish Romantic Poetry 268
Karen Weisman

17 Leigh Hunt's Cockney Canon: Sociability and Subversion from Homer to Hyperion 285
Michael Tomko

18 Poetry, Conversation, Community: Annus Mirabilis, 1797-1798 302
Emily Sun

Part III Contemporary Contexts and Perspectives 319

19 Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Improvisation in Romantic Poetry 321
Angela Esterhammer

20 Celebrity, Gender, and the Death of the Poet: The Mystery of Letitia Elizabeth Landon 337
Ghislaine McDayter

21 Poetry and Illustration: "Amicable strife" 354
Sophie Thomas

22 Romanticism, Sport, and Late Georgian Poetry

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