BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS
MARY MOORMAN William Wordsworth. A Biography (Clarendon Press, 1957)
WALTER JACKSON BATE Coleridge (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ‘Masters of World Literature’, 1968) An illuminating, if short, biography.
WILLIAM AND DOROTHY WORDSWORTH The Letters, ed. Ernest de Selincourt (Oxford, 1935–9): The Early Years rev. by Chester L. Shaver (Oxford University Press, 1967)
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH Journals, ed. Ernest de Selincourt (Macmillan, 1941)
S. T. COLERIDGE Collected Letters, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs (Clarendon Press, 1956)
S. T. COLERIDGE Notebooks, ed. ed. Kathleen Coburn (Routledge, 1957)
DAILY LIFE
ROBERT SOUTHEY Letters from England, ed. Jack Simmons, (Cresset Press, 1951)
THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY
ASA BRIGGS The Age of Improvement, (on the years 1784–1867) (Longmans, 1959, Vol. 8 of the History of England)
JOHN A. COLMER Coleridge: Critic of Society (Clarendon Press, 1959)
BRIAN INGLIS By the Sweat of thy Brow: Poverty in the Industrial Revolution (Hodder and Stoughton)
F. D. KLINGENDER Art and the Industrial Revolution, 1947 revised and ed. Arthur Elton, London; (Evelyn, Adams and MacKay, 1968)
R. J. WHITE From Waterloo to Peterloo (Peregrine Books)
POLITICS
ed. R. J. WHITE The Political Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Jonathan Cape, 1938)
ed. R. J. WHITE Political Tracts of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley (Cambridge University Press, 1953)
C. CRANE BRINTON The Political Ideas of the English Romanticists (Oxford University Press, 1926)
A. B. C. COBBAN Edmund Burke and the Revolt against the Eighteenth Century (Allen and Unwin, 1960)
EDUCATION AND CHILDHOOD
COVENEY, PETER Poor Monkey, The Child in Literature (Rockliff, London, 1957)
THE LITERARY WORLD
JOHN GROSS The Rise and Fall of the English Man of Letters (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969)
WILLIAM HAZLITT The Spirit of the Age (Oxford University Press, World’s Classics Series)
W. L. RENWICK English Literature 1789–1815 (Oxford History of English Literature, vol. 9)
LANDSCAPE
CHRISTOPHER HUSSEY The Picturesque (Frank Cass and Co., 1967) (I am deeply indebted to this book throughout Chapter 7)
EDMUND BURKE A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, ed. J. T. Boulton (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958)