Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries The Dialect of the Tribe

“In this well-researched and wide-ranging study, Tim Fulford joins critics such as Jeffrey Cox, Jon Mee and Paul Magnuson who instead see Romantic writing as a collaborative endeavour, investigating small writing communities (pejoratively dubbed ‘schools’ by Romantic-era reviewers) or twosomes. … Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries displays an impressive command of material with admirable alertness to the effects on the writers’ work of the ‘micro-historical’ as well as larger-scale social and political developments … .” (Kim Wheatley, Review of English Studies, Vol. 67, June, 2016)