Nicholas Roe

English Romantic Writers and the West Country Nicholas Roe

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: NICHOLAS ROE is Professor of English at St Andrews University, UK. He is the author of "Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years" (1988), "John Keats and the Culture of Dissent" (1997), "The Politics of Nature: William Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries" (2002), and "Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt" (2005). Table of Contents: List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsPreface--"R. Holmes"Introduction--"N. Roe"PART I: LANDSCAPES AND LEGENDSMore wondrous far than Egypts boasted pyramids: The South Wests Megaliths in the Romantic Period--"J. Parker"Al under the wyllowe tree: Chatterton and the Ecology of the West Country--"N. Groom"PART II: THE BRISTOL SCHOOL: COTTLE, COLERIDGE, AND THEIR CIRCLESJoseph Cottle and West-Country Romanticism--"R. Cronin"William Gilbert and his Bristol Circle 1788-98--"P. Cheshire"S. T. Coleridge, Joseph Cottle, and Some Bristol Baptists, 1794-96--"T. Whelan"Coleridges Bristol and West Country Radicalism--"P. J. Kitson"Radical Bible: Coleridges 1790s West Country Politics--"A. J. Harding"PART III: IMAGINING THE WEST COUNTRYWordsworths 1793 Journey to the West Country and Wales--"C. K. Walker"Coleridge in Devon--"G. Davidson"Southeys West Country--"L. Pratt"Romantic Hydrography: Tide and Transit in Tintern Abbey--"D. W. Davies"The Road Not Taken: Robert Bloomfields Wye Valley and the Poetic Imagination--"T. Fulford"PART IV: IN PURSUIT OF SPRINGThe Outset of Life: Shelley, Hazlitt, the West Country, and the Revolutionary Imagination--"M. ONeill"Over the Dartmoor Black: John Keats and the West Country--"N. Roe"Going Westward: William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas--"S. Yoshikawa"Afterword--"T. Mayberry"IndexPublisher Marketing: Often grouped with the British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line between the Wye at Tintern and Jane Austen's Chawton, this book is a reconfiguration of Romantic culture in the context of English regional identity.

Contributor Bio:  Roe, Nicholas Nicholas Roe is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. He has published extensively on Wordsworth and Coleridge and he is the author of John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (OUP, 1998).