Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montfort University, UK. His most recent publications include The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, and Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1811-38. He is currently editing the Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy.

Introduction

PART I: "A SECT OF POETS": THE DIALECT OF FRIENDSHIP IN SOUTHEY, COLERIDGE, AND THEIR CIRCLES
1. The Politicization of Allusion in Early Romanticism: Mary Robinson and the Bristol Poets
2. Brothers in Lore: Fraternity and Priority in , "Christabel," "Kubla Khan"
3. Signifying Nothing: Coleridge's Visions of 1816 - Anti-Allusion and the Poetic Fragment
4. Positioning : Poetic Circles and the Development of Colonial Romance
PART II: THE "RURAL TRIBE": LABORING CLASS POETS AND THE TRADITION
5. The Production of a Poet: Robert Bloomfield, his Patrons, and his Publishers
6. Iamb yet what Iamb: Allusion and Delusion in John Clare's Asylum Poems

PART III: THE LINGO OF LONDONERS: THE "COCKNEY SCHOOL"
7. Romanticism Lite: Talking, Walking and Name Dropping in the Cockney Essay
8. Allusions of Grandeur: Prophetic Authority and the Romantic City

Combining historical poetics and book history, Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries shows Romanticism as characterized by tropes and forms that were jointly produced by literary circles. To show these connections, Fulford pulls from a wealth of print material including political squibs, magazine essays, illustrated tour poems, and journals.