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Introduction; T.Woodman PART I: RETROSPECTION AND REFLECTIONS Organising Verse: Burke's Reflections and English Poetry, 1744-98; D.Fairer Between Self and Self's Book: Locke and Early Romantic Poetry; S.Clark PART II: GRAY AND COLLINS: SUBJECTIVITY AND CONVENTION Autobiography and Elegy: The Early Romantic Poetics of Thomas Gray and Charlotte Smith; D.E.White The Eighteenth-century Collins; P.Meyer Spacks PART III: GOLDSMITH AND COWPER: 'LITERARY LONELINESS' AND POLITICS The Deserted Village and the Map of Early English Romanticism; V.Newey Burke, Cowper and Wordsworth: The Politics and Poetics of Trees; T.Fulford Cowper's New Domestic Empires; K.O'Brien PART IV: SMART AND BLAKE: A DISTINCTIVE MODE Smart and 'Peculiar Language'; M.Walsh Smart and Blake: A Distinctive Mode; C.Mounsey PART V: THE FEMALE MUSE The Tenth Muse: Women Writers and the Poetry of Common Life; K.Williamson Every Poet Her Own Drawing Master: Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward and ut pictura poesis ; J.Labbe Regulating 'Wood-notes wild': Ann Yearsley and the Distribution of Genius; T.Burke PART VI: FORGING A PAST The Infatuated Worlds of Thomas Chatterton'; J.J.McGann Thomas Rowlie Preeste; N.Groom 'In Albion's Ancient Days': George Richards and the Dilemmas of Patriot Gothic; C.Williams Acknowledgements Index