NICHOLAS ROE is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His books include Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years, John Keats and the Culture of Dissent, and, as editor Keats and History and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life.

• List of Illustrations Abbreviations A Note on Texts Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE 'Unremembered Kindness': George Dyer and the Poets Robert Southey, Pantisocracy, and the Poet's Myth Living Without God in the World: Lamb, Coleridge, Wordsworth PART TWO John Thelwall's Essay, Towards a Definition of Animal Vitality The Prison Diary of John Augustus Bonney PART THREE Wordsworth's Secrecy: Gorsas and 'The Philanthropist' The Politics of the Wye Valley: Re-Placing 'Tintern Abbey' 'Adam of a New World': Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude Epilogue: The Noise of the Sea Appendix 1: Robert Southey and the Origin of Pantisocracy Appendix 2: A Checklist of Persons in Bonney's Diary Notes Bibliography Index