• Acknowledgements



• Note on Texts and Abbreviations



• Introduction



• PART I. The First Generation



• 1.: And I staind the water clear: Blake



• 2.: The words he uttered . . .: Wordsworth



• 3.: That done in air: Coleridge



• PART 2. The Second Generation



• 4.: A being more intense: Byron



• 5.: The mind which feeds this verse: Shelley (1)



• 6.: The sensitive plant: Evaluation and the Self-Conscious Poem: Shelley (2)



• 7.: The reading of an ever-changing tale: Keats (1)



• 8.: Writing and History in Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion: Keats (2)



• CODA. The Post-Romantic Self-Conscious Poem



• 9.: Yeats and Stevens: Two Versions of Post-Romantic Self-Consciousness



• 10.: Making and Faking: W. H. Auden



• 11.: The knowledge of contrast, feeling for light and shade: Amy Clampitt's Voyages: A Homage to John Keats



• Biobliography



• Index