English Romantic Writers and the West Country

1. Introduction
Nicholas Roe

Part I. Landscapes and Legends

2. ‘More wondrous far than Egypt’s boasted pyramids’: the South West’s Megaliths in the Romantic Period
Joanne Parker

3. ‘Al under the wyllowe tree’: Chatterton and the Ecology of the West Country
Nick Groom

Part II. The Bristol School: Cottle, Coleridge, and their Circles

4. Joseph Cottle and West Country Romanticism
Richard Cronin

5. William Gilbert and his Bristol Circle, 1788–98
Paul Cheshire

6. S. T. Coleridge, Joseph Cottle, and Some Bristol Baptists, 1794–96
Timothy Whelan

7. Coleridge’s Bristol and West Country Radicalism
Peter J. Kitson

8. Radical Bible: Coleridge’s 1790s West Country Politics
Anthony John Harding

Part III. Imagining the West Country

9. Wordsworth’s 1793 Journey to the West Country and Wales
Carol Kyros Walker

10. Coleridge in Devon
Graham Davidson

11. Southey’s West Country
Lynda Pratt

12. Romantic Hydrography: Tide and Transit in ‘Tintern Abbey’
Damian Walford Davies

13. The Road Not Taken: Robert Bloomfield’s Wye Valley and the Poetic Imagination
Tim Fulford

Part IV. In Pursuit of Spring

14. ‘The Outset of Life’: Shelley, Hazlitt, the West Country, and the Revolutionary Imagination
Michael O’Neill

15. ‘Over the Dartmoor Black’: John Keats and the West Country
Nicholas Roe

16. Going Westward: William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, and Edward Thomas
Saeko Yoshikawa

17. Afterword
Tom Mayberry

Keywords: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, History of Britain and Ireland