This book examines the legacy of Romantic poetics in the poetry produced in political movements during the nineteenth century. It argues that a communitarian tradition of poetry extending from the 1790s to William Morris in the 1890s learned from and incorporated elements of Romantic lyricism, and produced an ongoing and self-conscious tradition of radical poetics. The book includes new readings of familiar Romantic poets including Wordsworth and Shelley, and provides case studies of relatively unknown Chartist and Republican poets such as Ernest Jones and W.J. Linton.

Focusing on the period from 1770 to 1830, this collection deploys recent thinking on women in the romantic period to define an agenda which will shape studies in this area into the next century. Investigating issues of class and gender, imperalism and gender identity, and gender and genre, the essays range widely over women and women's affairs during the period, and include pieces on such important writers as Emily Dickinson, Letitia Landon, and Anna Letitia Barbauld. Recent developments in the theory and practice of feminist literary criticism are used to reassess the literature of the...

A study of the lives of and works of Anna Barbauld and Mary Robinson, two of the most influential women poets of the late 18th and early 19th centuries giving particular attention to them as London poets, and in the context of the political and cultural radicalism of the age in which they lived.

A study of the lives of and works of Anna Barbauld and Mary Robinson, two of the most influential women poets of the late 18th and early 19th centuries giving particular attention to them as London poets, and in the context of the political and cultural radicalism of the age in which they lived.