Table of Contents

Contents: Editor's Preface; Authentication of National Identity: Macpherson and Burns as Editors of Scottish Ballads; Those Lips: on Cowper (Ekphrasis in Parentheses); William Blake and the Prophetic Marketplace; Hume, Scott, and the Rise of Fiction'; Poetry and Ignorance; Home Thoughts From Abroad: Wordsworth's Musings Near Aquapendente'; Self Generations: On Wordsworth's Frontispiece Portraits.; Poetic Laments of P. B. Shelley: Conventions, Familiar Mysteries, and Critical Responses; Victorian Angles on Blake: Reading the Artist's Head in the Late Nineteenth Century.