Introduction
A Cultural Overview
Texts, Writers and Contexts
Writing in Revolution
Burke, Paine and Wordsworth, Extended Commentary: Wordsworth, The Prelude (1805), Book IX, lines 436–504, NotesRevolution, Reaction and the Natural World
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Clare and Blake, Extended Commentary: Blake, ‘The Tyger’ (Songs of Experience, 1794), NotesDramatic Writing
Walpole, Southey and Byron, Extended Commentary: Walpole, The Mysterious Mother (1768), V.i.312–420, NotesRomantic Verse Narrative
Keats, Shelley and Coleridge, Extended Commentary: Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817), lines 1–40 and 610–17, NotesCritical Theories and Debates
Imagination, Truth and Reason
From Mimesis to Expression, Shakespearean Precedents, Coleridge: Fancy and Imagination, Science, Reason and the Imagination, Metaphors of Mind, Imagination and Liberty, The Privileging Faculty, Counter-Voices and Debate, NotesFaith, Myth and Doubt
The Mind of Man, Religion in the Period, The Higher Criticism and Millenarianism, The Evangelical Revival, Atheism and Belief, Romantic Heterodoxy: Religion and Materialism, Religion, Myth and Sexuality, NotesReferences and Resources