lyric, the 117, 118, 119 lyric epiphany, in Wordsworth’s Prelude 231 lyric formalism 220 lyric ostentation 232 lyric poetry 217 and aestheticism 223 as a commodity 229 erotic resistance and seduction 223 in Byron’s poetry 226–30 in Mary Robinson’s poetry 223 in Thomas Moore’s poetry 224–6 historicity 218 readers’ resistance to 220 resistance to history 230 Keats’s Hyperion 233, 235 Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound 234 Wordsworth’s Prelude 231–3, 234, 235 social dimensions 219 Wordsworth’s views 146