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In this book, Judith Thompson restores a powerful but long-suppressed voice to our understanding of British Romanticism. Drawing on newly discovered archives, this book offers the first full-length study of the poetry of John Thelwallas well as his partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.

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Prologue: Mapping the Circle PART I: COLERIDGE & CO. Corresponding Society ´Sweet Converse´ The Politics of Collaboration Covert Contradictions PART II: ANNUS MIRABILIS Prospecting: Towards a New Peripatetic ´The Echoing Wye´ Action and Reaction PART III: RE: WORDSWORTH AND THELWALL The Retrospective Glance Poetry and Reform: Reviving the Sonnet Poetry and Reform: Resounding the Ode ´And yet again recovered´: Reclaiming the Recluse

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´Painstaking but also passionate, Thompson´s textual-biographical study reveals that the famous creative duet of Wordsworth and Coleridge was really a trio. John Thelwall has been resurrected.´ - H. J. Jackson, professor of English, University of Toronto

´John Thelwall in the Wordsworth Circle is a tour de force of biographical, rhetorical, and theoretical criticism. It restores John Thelwall as a ´missing link´ in our cultural formations of English Romantic literature. Thompson clearly shows how Thelwall is ´there,´ even though he has been, until very recently, almost invisible both as a poet in his own right, and as an enabler and catalyst to Wordsworth and Coleridge. Our image of ´the origins of British Romanticism´ must be radically indeed! revised by her work on this great Romantic radical.´ - Kenneth R. Johnston, Ruth N. Halls Professor, Indiana University

´By inserting Thelwall into the foundational friendship of English Romanticism, Thompson´s highly original and intellectually ambitious study reconfigures what we mean by English Romanticism. We come away from Thompson´s book with not just a new Thelwall, one with more intellectual depth and breadth, but a new Wordsworth and Coleridge, whose work reflects an ambivalent encounter with Thelwall.´ - - Michael Scrivener, Distinguished Professor of English, Wayne State University

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Judith Thompson is Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Canada.

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