Introduction : Romantic Forms of Grief -- "Curse My Stars in Bitter Grief ": William Blake and the Songs of Loss -- "Still the Reckless Change We Mourn" : Wordsworth and the Circulation of Grief -- "Enfolded Close in Grief ": Coleridge, Introspection and the Inward Turn of the Conversation Poems -- "Chasten'd Thoughts of Grief" : Grieving Voices and Self-Consuming Subjectivity in Charlotte Smith and Felicia Hemans -- "Sable Lines of Grief" : Posthumous Reputations and the Art of Forgetting in Byron's Poetic Ruins -- "A Grief Too Sad for Song" : Shelley's Elegiac Voice and Poetic Voyages -- "Grief and Radiance Faint" : Keats and Tragic Realisation -- "Grief Searching Muse" : John Clare's Landscapes of Memory and Mourning -- "Echoes of that Voice" : Romantic Forms of Grief in Victorian Poetic Birdsong
"Rooted in the inconceivable and unspeakable event of death, Romantic poetic forms of grief possess a self-questioning presence about their own creative processes and formal structures. These imaginative encounters of Romanticism with grief and loss, as well as Romantic speculations about posterity, Sandy suggests, are no less diversified in their use of literary forms than their elegiac tones are confined to the form of poetic elegy"--
