Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statist

Presents an ecocritical study of poetic atmosphere, a concept first developed through Romanticism, particularly in the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Sally West's timely study is the first book-length exploration of Coleridge's influence on Shelley's poetic development. Beginning with a discussion of Shelley'

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