The Late Poetry of the Lake Poets

Tim Fulford is a Professor of English at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has published widely on Romantic and eighteenth-century literature and culture. He is editor of The Banks of Wye: A Critical Edition (2012) and co-editor of Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811–1838 (2012).

• Introduction; Part I. Southey: 1. The Lake Poets and the picturesque view: the visual turn in the late Southey; 2. Poetic hells and pacific edens: Southey's Tale of Paraguay and Byron's The Island; Part II. Coleridge: 3. Print and performance: Christabel: Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep; 4. The language of love in the late Coleridge: annual verse and collected poetry; Part III. Wordsworth: 5. Naming the abyss: Wordsworth and the sound of power; 6. Picturing the prehistoric: Wordsworth's sightseeing.

'This richly contextual, deeply researched book is likely to appeal to all those interested in the evolution of the long creative life, and the challenges it presents to traditional categories of literary periodization.' The Times Literary Supplement