CONTENTS List of contributors Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction: The companionable forms of Romantic poetry ja m e s c h a n d l e r a n d m au r e e n n m c l a n e The living pantheon of poets in 1820: pantheon or canon? j e f f r e y n c ox page vii x xi 10 Romantic poetry and antiquity n i c k g ro o m 35 Romantic meter and form s u sa n s t e wa rt 53 Romantic poetry and the standardization of English andrew elfenbein 76 Thinking in verse s i m o n ja rv i s 98 Romantic poetry and the romantic novel a n n w i e r da row l a n d 117 Wordsworth’s great Ode: Romanticism and the progress of poetry ja m e s c h a n d l e r 136 v Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008