Table of Contents

Introduction: 'one common life'
I
1: Organicism: The Idealist Tradition
2: Organic Constitutions: Identity
3: Organic Constitutions: History
II
4: 'Sweet native stream!': Approaching Tintern Abbey
5: Southey's Literary History: Poetry in Retrospect
6: Between Youth and Age: Coleridge's Monody on the Death of Chatterton, 1790-6
7: Putting his Poems Together: Coleridge's First Volume (1796)
8: Coleridge's Sonnets from Various Authors (1796): A Lost Conversation Poem?
9: Organising Friendship: Coleridge, Lamb, and Lloyd
10: A Matter of Emphasis: Coleridge and Thelwall, 1796-7
11: Returning to the Ruined Cottage
12: 'Look homeward Angel now': Prospects and Fears in 1798
Postscript
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

David Fairer is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds. His most recent book is English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 (Longman, 2003). He is also the author of Pope's Imagination (1984), The Poetry of Alexander Pope (1989), and editor of Pope: New Contexts (1990), The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (University of Georgia Press, 1995), and the first complete printing
of Warton's History of English Poetry (Routledge, 1998). With Christine Gerrard he has edited Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell, Second Edition, 2004).

Reviews

The whole volume bespeaks an erudition and an attention to detail that are simply awe-inspiring. This is a book not only for academics interested in the poetry of the 1790s, but for anyone curious about the persistence of earlier 18th-century concepts throughout that revolutionary decade.
*Christoph Bode, Times Higher Education*

Organising Poetry has many strengths... deserves serious consideration
*William Christie, Review of English Studies*

David Fairer boldly reclaims organic criticism for a new century
*Richard Cronin, Romanticism*

Organising Poetry is a book that forces us to clarify not only which Coleridge we are talking about but also which organicisn and, ultimately, which Romanticism, for it defamiliarizes the Romanticism theorized into being through the breathless pronouncements of the idealist tradition. Fairer;s study represents scholarly craftsmanship of the highest order; its analytical integrity is elegant and unwavering: an indispensable book that will invite frequent reengagement.
*Scott Krawczyk, SiR*