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Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter Larkin´s original verse, with the concept of promise and loss serving as the uniting narrative thread.

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Wordsworth´s ´After-Sojourn´: Revision and Unself-Rivalry in the Later Poetry The Secondary Wordsworth´s First of Homes: Home at Grasmere Wordsworth´s "Cloud of Texture" Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth´s "Book of Questions" Relations of Scarcity: Ecology and Eschatology in "The Ruined Cottage" Scarcity by Gift: Horizons of the ´Lucy´ Poems Scarcely on the Way: The Starkness of Things in Sacral Space Wordsworth´s Maculate Exception: Achieving the ´Spots of Time´ Imagining Naming Shaping: Stanza VI of ´Dejection: An Ode´ ´Fears in Solitude´: Reading (from) the Dell ´I mourn to thee´: Dedication and Insufficiency in ´Constancy to an Ideal Object´ ´Frost at Midnight´: Some Coleridgean Intertwinings Coleridge Conversing: Between Soliloquy and Invocation Repetition, Difference, and Liturgical Participation in Coleridge´s ´The Ancient Mariner´ Voice, Judgment, and the Innocence of the Self in Coleridge Envoi: "Brushwood by Inflection, 2"

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Peter Larkin is Philosophy and Literature Librarian in the University of Warwick and has published numerous essays on British Romantic poetry and on contemporary ecopoetics.

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