Table of Contents

Introduction: "Infant Bud of Being"

1. "Blank Misgivings": Infancy in Wordsworth’s Ode

2. "When I First Saw the Child": Reverie in Erasmus Darwin and Coleridge

3. Merging and Emerging in the Work of Sara Coleridge

4. Bodies in Dissolve: Animal Magnetism and Infancy in Shelley

5. Stillborn Poetics and Tennyson’s Songs

Afterword: "An Echo to the Self": Augusta Webster’s Psychoanalytic Thought

About the Author

David Ruderman is Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University, USA.