This book explores the significance of the late poems of the Lake Poets and the establishment of their later careers.

Introduction; Part I. Southey: 1. The Lake Poets and the picturesque view: the visual turn in the late Southey; 2. Poetic hells and pacific edens: Southey's Tale of Paraguay and Byron's The Island; Part II. Coleridge: 3. Print and performance: Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep; 4. The language of love in the late Coleridge: annual verse and collected poetry; Part III. Wordsworth: 5. Naming the abyss: Wordsworth and the sound of power; 6. Picturing the prehistoric: Wordsworth's sightseeing.

Tim Fulford is a Professor of English at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has published widely on Romantic and eighteenth-century literature and culture. He is editor of The Banks of Wye: A Critical Edition (2012) and co-editor of Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811-1838 (2012).