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My discussion of Davy intervenes in several critical debates about Romantic literature and science. First, I show that for Davy, 'literature' and science were neither inimical nor even merely analogous disciplines. Poetry was not simply related to scientific discourse because both expressed the enquirer's understanding of nature; it was formally related to experimental enquiry as a formulation on paper of the mental organization of the world-as-apprehended that is both akin to and a preparation for the mental organization of the world-as-apprehended that takes form as experimental design. Second, Davy's poetry, developing Coleridge's, constitutes a development of the prospect-view tradition in that it is as concerned with the mental process of prospecting as it is with the object viewed. In this respect, it is a modification of the materialist account of perception of the medical and scientific men who set the agenda of the Bristol circle in which both Coleridge and Davy first flourished – Erasmus Darwin and Darwin's main advocate, their mentor Thomas Beddoes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dorothy Wordsworth's name, writing, and identity as an author are frequently subsumed in the plural of 'The Wordsworths', in her relationship as the sister of the poet, William Wordsworth. But Dorothy was a Romantic author in her own right. She wrote poetry, narratives, and journals. Nine of her journals have been published. In 1803, and again in 1822, she toured Scotland and recorded her journeys in Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland and Journal of My Second Tour in Scotland. This article considers Dorothy's two Scottish journals. It discusses them in the light of historical and literary contexts, and places of memorial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay concerning difficulties faced by students of the U.S. in studying British romanticism. Topics discussed include difficulties faced by students in understanding romantic poetry and unfamiliar historic events, handbook guides for studying romanticism and activities taken up by teachers in making students understand romanticism. Other topics include students perception romanticism and analyzing summary written by students using Latent semantic analysis (LSA) program.

Kitamura Tōkoku's 北村透谷 1891 text Hōraikyoku 蓬莱曲 (Song of Mt. Hōrai), often regarded as one of the first examples of free verse in modern Japanese, puzzled its contemporary audience, who were uncertain whether to categorize it as drama, poetry, or prose. This debate was part of a broader semantic shift toward a holistic concept of poetry, of which Japanese poetry was one subset--alongside English poetry, German poetry, and so on. Tōkoku's Hōraikyoku was, in an idiosyncratic way, a contribution to the debate over the forms that a broadly conceived "poetry" could take. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article talks about drama of the Romantic period, the interest for which has been awakened by scholars, namely: Paula Backscheider, Frederick Burwick, and Jane Moody.

An essay is presented which explores the theoretical and methodological strategies by which writer Anne Mellor's call for developing woman's book history for the Romantic period can be achieved. Topics discussed include women's involvement in literary culture, case study of women's publishing history, and women's participation in the print culture in the Romantic era.

The article examines poet Alice Meynell's reflection on pregnancy in her literary works. It discusses Meynell's poems "Parentage" and "To One Poem in a Silent Time," the increase in interest of scholars in Meynell's poems since the 1990s, and the link between pencilling and mothering in Meynell's works.

While many readers of Percy Shelley's The Cenci have justly considered the work's Promethean themes, this essay examines the drama in relation to another figure of suffering--that of Job. The Cenci's thematic development and imagery make apparent its affinities with the biblical text. Moreover, the play introduces an important moral complication to the scriptural scheme by casting several characters as Jobian variants, or types. For Shelley, who, himself, identifies with Job, the Jobian influence deepens the work's testing of the questions of innocence and the role of the father. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented on the contents of the book of author Thomas De Quincy "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." It outlines how the book became the basis of Romantic Orientalism through Edward Said's work "Orientalism," due to its standard anthologies of romantic literature and formative expression of teeming. It also explores how De Quincy's work developed an orientalist mentality and sheds light on the hardening of imperialist attitudes in the nineteenth century.

The article examines the recurrent metaphors of ingestion, contagion, and reproduction that suggests novelistic mothering as reflected in the review of critic Mary Wollstonecraft for the book "Analytical Review" and in her last fiction book "The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria." It discusses the figurative language in Wollstonecraft's work for the book that suggests a repudiation of mothering and femininity. It explores the maternal metaphors in Wollstonecraft's work and how it relates to sympathy.

This essay argues for the necessity of a book history of the 1850 first edition of William Wordsworth's poem The Prelude, which is currently a liber non gratus: a marginalized, unwelcome book. Editing of and scholarship on The Prelude since 1926 have promoted earlier, manuscript versions at the expense of the 1850 edition, despite accepting it as a 'fact of literary history'. Thus, attention to the material life of the 1850 poem with Victorian readers - such as in criticism and biographies of Wordsworth, and the giving of books as gifts - recovers its significance to our conceptions of nineteenth-century literary history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an analysis of the work of Charlotte Smith, poet and author of novels and educational books, among others. Reflected in her poetry such as "The Emigrants" and "Elegiac Sonnets" are Smith's experiences as an exile from France and from a life that could have been hers except for a bad marriage and laws on property ownership. The author points out that besides exile, Smith had a political agenda as evidenced in "Desmond," which was pro-revolution and her subsequent novel "The Banished Man," which was against the revolution.

The article discusses the importance for college students to participate in active, productive interpretive communities and the role played by teachers in student-centered classrooms in creating a balance between empowering students and engaging them to test professorial authority. The author shares her own difficulty with getting her students to participate more fully in the classroom, citing recommendations by her students for her to provide more direction during class.

This article discusses the ethical crisis posed by humanistic framework in relation to the perceptions of poets William Hazlitt and John Keats. Particular focus is given to a human mind's disinterested imagination which is a mechanism through which identity is perceived as a limitation or a distortion towards his relation to the society. Hazlitt focuses on one's own emotions as the conveying factor of his actions, while Keats suggests projection of otherness.