j e f f r e y n c ox 11 On “The Literary Diary; or, Improved Common-Place-Book” (Bristol Central Library), used by Reynolds, his sister Charlotte, Frances Hood, and Thomas Hood to collect poetry, among other writings, see Paul Kaufman, “The Reynolds-Hood Commonplace Book: A Fresh Appraisal,” Keats-Shelley Journal 10 (1961), pp 43–52; for other such gatherings made within the extended Keats circle, see Clayton E Hudnall, “John Hamilton Reynolds, James Rice, and Benjamin Bailey in the Leigh Browne-Lockyer Collection,” Keats-Shelley Journal 19 (1970), pp 11–37 On writers and reviewers, see Barbara M Benedict, “Readers, Writers, Reviewers, and the Professionalization of Literature,” in The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740–1830, ed Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp 3–23; Marilyn Butler, “Culture’s Medium: The Role of the Review,” in Curran, The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, pp 120–47; British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review, ed Massimiliano Demata and Duncan Wu (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002); and Mark Parker, Literary Magazines and British Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) 12 Among the many studies of canon formation in this period, see John Guillory, Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993); Michael Gamer, Romanticism and the Gothic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000); Robert Crawford, Devolving English Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992); David Simpson, “Romanticism, Criticism and Theory,” in Curran, The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, pp 1–24; and Natalie M Houston, “Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon,” in A Companion to Victorian Poetry, ed Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman, and Antony H Harrison (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002), pp 361–77 13 St Clair, The Reading Nation, pp 660–4 14 Stephen Gill, William Wordsworth: A Life (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), pp 330–7, 344 15 On Wordsworth’s efforts to create himself as the key poet of the day, see Lee Erickson, “The Egoism of Authorship: Wordsworth’s Poetic Career,” in The Economy of Literary Form: English Literature and the Industrialization of Publishing, 1800–1850 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp 19–48 16 Elizabeth Barrett, The Battle of Marathon (London: printed for W Lindsell, 1820), p 17 See Michael Scrivener, Poetry and Reform: Periodical Verse and the English Democratic Press 1792–1824 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992); Anne Janowitz, Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); and Paul Thomas Murphy, Towards a WorkingClass Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816–1858 (Columbus: Ohio University Press, 1994) 18 Jeffrey C Robinson, Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), p 226 Subsequent references in the text 19 Margaret J M Ezell, Writing Women’s Literary History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), pp 66–131 20 Francis Hodgson, Sæculomastix; or, The Lash of the Age We Live In; A Poem, in Two Parts (London: Porter, 1819) 32 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008