"Providing new perspectives on Wordsworth's later poetry, Philip Shaw reveals how his work after the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars reflects poetic and political engagement with peace. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"--

Philip Shaw is Professor of Romantic Studies at the University of Leicester. He has written extensively on Romantic-period literature, specialising in literary and visual responses to the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. His books include Romantic Wars (2000), Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination (2002), The Sublime (2006/2017), and Suffering and Sentiment in Romantic Military Art (2013).

Introduction; 1. Conscripting 'The Recluse'; 2. Peace out of time: The White Doe of Rylstone; 3. Thanksgiving after war; 4. 'Returning, like a ghost unlaid': Peter Bell and The Waggoner; 5. Violent waters: The River Duddon and Ecclesiastical Sketches; 6. Wordsworth after Byron: Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820; After Wordsworth.