Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries The Dialect of the Tribe [Hardcover]

Combining historical poetics and book history, Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries shows Romanticism as characterized by tropes and forms that were jointly produced by literary circles. To show these connections, Fulford pulls from a wealth of print material including political squibs, magazine essays, illustrated tour poems, and journals.

In this well-researched and wide-ranging study, Tim Fulford joins critics such as Jeffrey Cox, Jon Mee and Paul Magnuson who instead see Romantic writing as a collaborative endeavour, investigating small writing communities (pejoratively dubbed schools by Romantic-era reviewers) or twosomes. & Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries displays an impressive command of material with admirable alertness to the effects on the writers work of the micro-historical as well as larger-scale social and political developments & . (Kim Wheatley, Review of English Studies, Vol. 67, June, 2016)

Tim Fulford is Professor of English at De Montfort University, UK. His most recent publications include The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, and Robert Southey: Poetical Works 1811-38. He is currently editing the Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy.

Fulford's astonishing command of the diverse methods, interests, and materials dispersed throughout the field of Romantic studies today and of the critical practices of the past thirty years gives this study title to its own title: it is itself a grammar, lexicon, and demonstration of the dialect of our tribe - the scholars, critics, and historians of things and themes Romantic. - Marjorie Levinson, F.L. Huetwell Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, USA

In Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries Tim Fulford weaves a series of rich literary networks, or coteries. Arguing that coteries create collective poetic projects, he revisits literary 'allusion', demonstrating that it knits together lc»