• I. The Discourse of Enthusiasm



• Introduction: Situating Enthusiasm



• 1: Commanding Enthusiasm through the Eighteenth Century



• 2: Enthusiasm, Liberty, and Benevolence in the 1790s



• II. The Poetics of Enthusiasm



• 3: Coleridge, Prophecy, and Imagination



• 4: Barbauld, Devotion, and the Woman Prophet



• 5: Wordsworth's chastened enthusiasm



• 6: Energy and Enthusiasm in Blake



• Conclusion: Enthusiastic Misreadings