Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘He was not one of ye’: Poetry and Mental Peculiarity, 1825–1836

Chapter 3 ‘Ah! let me not be fool’d’: Delusion and Inspiration in the Poems of Browning and Tennyson, 1832–1840

Chapter 4 Sir William’s Last Stand: Poetry and Insanity in England, 1837–1842

Chapter 5 Seeing Things: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Romantic Poetry, 1836–1855

Chapter 6 ‘The Madness’: Inspiration and Insanity in Spasmodic Poetry, 1851–1855