In this book, Judith Thompson restores a powerful but long-suppressed voice to our understanding of British Romanticism. Drawing on newly discovered archives, this book offers the first full-length study of the poetry of John Thelwallas well as his partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

Prologue: Mapping the Circle PART I: COLERIDGE & CO. Corresponding Society 'Sweet Converse' The Politics of Collaboration Covert Contradictions PART II: ANNUS MIRABILIS Prospecting: Towards a New Peripatetic 'The Echoing Wye' Action and Reaction PART III: RE: WORDSWORTH AND THELWALL The Retrospective Glance Poetry and Reform: Reviving the Sonnet Poetry and Reform: Resounding the Ode 'And yet again recovered': Reclaiming the Recluse