Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s shows for the first time how the radical 'Jacobin' poets, and their ideas of a 'revolutionary' poetry, were impelled -

This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution. This series will appeal to those involved in English literary studies,

The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting

"While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied--from Samuel Johnson's 'Dictionary' to grammar and elocution books

A new analysis of Wordsworth's reception in nineteenth-century Germany.