Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter Larkin's original verse, with the concept of promise and loss serving as the uniting narrative thread.

Peter Larkin is Philosophy and Literature Librarian in the University of Warwick and has published numerous essays on British Romantic poetry and on contemporary ecopoetics.

Wordsworth's 'After-Sojourn': Revision and Unself-Rivalry in the Later Poetry   The Secondary Wordsworth's First of Homes: Home at Grasmere   Wordsworth's "Cloud of Texture" Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth's "Book of Questions"   Relations of Scarcity: Ecology and Eschatology in "The Ruined Cottage" Scarcity by Gift: Horizons of the 'Lucy' Poems   Scarcely on the Way: The Starkness of Things in Sacral Space   Wordsworth's Maculate Exception: Achieving the 'Spots of Time'   Imagining Naming Shaping: Stanza VI of 'Dejection: An Ode'   'Fears in Solitude': Reading (from) the Dell   'I mourn to thee': Dedication and Insufficiency in 'Constancy to an Ideal Object'   'Frost at Midnight': Some Coleridgean Intertwinings Coleridge Conversing: Between Soliloquy and Invocation   Repetition, Difference, and Liturgical Participation in Coleridge's 'The Ancient Mariner'   Voice, Judgment, and the Innocence of the Self in Coleridge   Envoi: "Brushwood by Inflection, 2"