Grasmere 2011: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference

This collection of essays includes Stephen Gill on

Wordsworth's 'revisitings', Ann Wroe on Shelley's

famous pamphlet, 'The Necessity of Atheism', Mary

Favret on the cultural practice of 'The General Fast

and Humiliation' in war-time, Gregory Leadbetter on

Wordsworth's 'Lucy Poems', Daniel Robinson on

Wordsworth's sonnets and newspaper verse, Mark J

Bruhn and Jacob Risinger on aspects of

Wordsworths's thought, Jessica Fay on Wordsworth

and hermitude, Matthew Rowney on Wordsworth's

peripatetics, Madeleine Callaghan on Shelley's

Idealism, Monika Class on Coleridge and the once

reputable 'science' of Phrenology, Stacey McDowell

on Keats's play 'Otho the Great', Felicity James on

Mary Hays and the life-writing of religious Dissent,

and Richard Gravil on John Thelwall's hitherto

unknown analysis of the prosody of Wordsworth's

Excursion.