“not the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

 
 
     
 
 

Research Interests

 
 

 
 

Provincial writing in late eighteenth-century England, especially that of Norwich (which I wrote my doctoral thesis on)

The “Lake Poets,”  Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

Charles Lamb and his circle

Shakespeare, especially the history of Shakespeare criticism

George Borrow

Charles Dickens