Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-252) and index.
Contents
Poetry in the 'age of war' -- The poetic imagining of war in the 1790s : Charlotte Smith and Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- 'Was it for this ...?' : War and poetic identity in the writings of Southey and Wordsworth, 1793-1802 -- 'Men we are' : poetry, war and gender in Wordsworth's political sonnets, 1802-1803 -- Walter Scott's picturesque romance of war, 1805-1814 -- 'History in the land of romance' : poetry and the Penninsular War, 1808-1828 -- Epilogue : the 'Sir Walter disease' and the legacy of romantic war.
