Romantic Fiat

1. Introduction: Fiat in Lyric
Eric Reid Lindstrom

Part I. Giving Commands and Letting Go

2. Romanticism and ‘Exaggeration of Thought’
Eric Reid Lindstrom

3. The Command to Nature
Eric Reid Lindstrom

4. Wordsworth’s Useless Fiat in ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’
Eric Reid Lindstrom

Part II. Ontology and the Lyric

5. Between Cant and Anguish: Hume in Coleridge’s Imagination
Eric Reid Lindstrom

6. Wordsworth and the Beautiful Day
Eric Reid Lindstrom

Part III. Blessing Cursing

7. Contracting Obi: Shelley’s Cosmopolitanism and the Curse of Poetry
Eric Reid Lindstrom

8. Paper Money Poets
Eric Reid Lindstrom

Part III. Blessing Cursing

9. Coda: Nature Poets and Fiat Money
Eric Reid Lindstrom

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory