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Seamus Perry
Thrill of the Chase
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Paul Foot
A Hooded Eagle Among Blinking Owls
Coleridge: Early Visions
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Nicholas Roe
Obsession of an Opium-Eater
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
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Adam Sisman
Lamb Stew
A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb
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Peter Washington
A Child Of Nature
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Peter Washington
Writer & Co
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
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Adam Sisman
A Mind Ablaze
The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By Kathleen Coburn, Merton Christensen, Antony John Harding (edd)
Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection
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Eat, Drink & Be Merry
The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb
By Stanley Plumly
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Paul Johnson
Let’s Face The Music
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
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Catherine Peters
Experiments In Living
Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives
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William St Clair
Taking Care Of Keats
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William St Clair
The Spirit of His Age
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man
By Duncan Wu
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Patricia Fara
Watchers of the Skies
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
By Richard Holmes
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Diana Athill
Astonishing Intimacy
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth
By Frances Wilson
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John Martin Robinson
By Religious Design
God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
By Rosemary Hill
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July 2007 Issue
Frances Wilson
Hardly Human
Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle
By Janet Todd
Being Shelley: The Poet’s Search for Himself
By Ann Wroe
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Adam Sisman
Poesy & Apostasy
Robert Southey: Entire Man of Letters
By W A Speck
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Tim Hilton
Bodies of Evidence
Turner’s Secret Sketches
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Adam Sisman
He Lived Too Long
Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt
By Nicholas Roe
The Wit in the Dungeon: Leigh Hunt and His Circle
By Anthony Holden
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September 2012 Issue
Frances Wilson
Evergreen Architecture
The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, forgotten Romantic heroine – antiquarian, architect and visionary
By Jenny Uglow
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