“Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age”

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

 
 
     
 
 

Publications —
Contributions to Books and Encyclopedic Works

 
 

 
 

— “'In sickness, despair, and in agony': Imagining the King's Illness, 1788-1789” in Liberating Medicine, 1720-1835, ed. Tristanne Connolly and Steve Clark (Pickering and Chatto, 2009), 109-25.

— “Walter Savage Landor and Wales in the 1790s” in Wales and the Romantic Imagination, ed. Damian Walford Davies and Lynda Pratt (University of Wales Press, 2007), 141-60.

— Seven articles for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), on Peter Bayley (1778-1823), John Fransham (1730-1810), Thomas Howes (1728-1814), Robert Plumptre (1723-88), Frank Sayers (1763-1817), William Taylor (1765-1836), and James White (1775-1820). Each article is the standard short biography of its subject. The ODNB website (only accessible to subscribers) is at http://www.oxforddnb.com

— Three articles for Literature OnLine (LION) on William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, published 2001. Each article is approximately 3,000 words long and includes a biography, description of the writer’s major works, and overview of the critical heritage. The LION website (only accessible to subscribers) is at http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk

— 50 bibliographical records for the Wordsworth chapter of The Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES). Each contains a full description and evaluation of an important book or article on Wordsworth, as well as a list of keywords to facilitate searching. The ABES website (with limited access to non-subscribers) is at https://www.routledgeabes.com/sabe/home