Literature and the Growth of British Nationalism: The Influence of Romantic Poetry and Bardic Criticism

"This book offers a new reading of major works by Romantic poets from Wordsworth and Coleridge to Felicia Hemans and Anna Letitia Barbauld, illuminating the ways they corroborated the public image of poets as bona fide national bards and advanced Britishnationalism, even when they intentionally set out to oppose or reform the politics of state"--