Science and sensation in romantic poetry

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-283) and index.

Introduction : lyrical forms and empirical realities : reading Romanticism's "language of the sense" -- Senses of history : between the mind and the world -- Powers of suggestion : sensation, revolution, and Romantic aesthetics -- The "sense of history" and the history of the senses : periodizing perception in Wordsworth and Blake -- Senses of community : lyric subjectivity and "the culture of the feelings" -- Critical conditions : Coleridge, "common sense," and the literature of self-experiment -- Sense and consensus : Wordsworth, aesthetic culture, and the poet-physician -- The persistence of the aesthetic : afterlives of Romanticism -- John Keats and the sense of the future -- More than a feeling? : Walter Pater, Wilkie Collins, and the legacies of Wordsworthian aesthetics.