Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Producing a poet for the public. Learning to be a poet of imagination : Wordsworth and the Ghost of Cowper -- The politics of landscape and the poetics of patronage : collection coleorton -- Part II. Spots of space : materializing memory. Memorials of Scott-land, 1814-33 -- Textual strata and geological form : the Scriptorium and the Cave -- Part III. The politics of diction. The erotics of influence : Wordsworth as Byron and Keats -- Wordsworth and Ebenezer Elliott : radicalism renewed -- Part IV. Late genres. Narrow cells and stone circles : sonnet form and spiritual history -- Evanescence and after-effect : the evening voluntaries -- Coda. Elegiac musing and generic mixing