Table of Contents

1 Inf luences and Early Poetry (1840–45) 2 Jones and Myth (1846–48) 3 The ‘Mighty Mind’ (1846–48) 4 Lyrical Prison Poetry (1848–50) 5 ‘The New World, a Democratic Poem’ (1851) 6 Pseudonymity, Revision, Songs of the Low and High (1851–60)

About the Author

Simon Rennie teaches English literature at universities across the North of England.