Dahlia Porter is Lecturer in English Literature and Material Culture at the University of Glasgow. Her articles on literature, science, medicine, and visual art appear in Representations, Romanticism, and The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation and in essay collections on Samuel Johnson, Charlotte Smith, and The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction. She co-edited Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, 1798 and 1800 (2008) with Michael Gamer, and is a member of the Multigraph Collective, a group of 22 scholars who co-wrote Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation (2018).

Introduction: Romanticism's composite orders; 1. Knowledge, text, mind: a history of inductive method; Part I. Making Texts: The Annotated Poem: 2. Erasmus Darwin's prose of the world: induction and the philosophical poem; 3. Poetics of the commonplace: Robert Southey's analogical romance; The First Landing Place: Prose Notes and Embedded Verse; Part II. Making Minds: Poetry in Prose: 4. Methodizing the mind: experimental education and the poetic excerpt; 5. Coleridge and literary criticism: the pains of induction; Final Landing Place: The Composite Incarnate.