IntroductionPART I: "A SECT OF POETS": THE DIALECT OF FRIENDSHIP IN SOUTHEY, COLERIDGE, AND THEIR CIRCLES1. The Politicization of Allusion in Early Romanticism: Mary Robinson and the Bristol Poets 2. Brothers in Lore: Fraternity and Priority in Thalaba, "Christabel," "Kubla Khan" 3. Signifying Nothing: Coleridge's Visions of 1816 - Anti-Allusion and the Poetic Fragment4. Positioning The Missionary: Poetic Circles and the Development of Colonial Romance PART II: THE "RURAL TRIBE": LABORING CLASS POETS AND THE TRADITION5. The Production of a Poet: Robert Bloomfield, his Patrons, and his Publishers 6. Iamb yet what Iamb: Allusion and Delusion in John Clare's Asylum PoemsPART III: THE LINGO OF LONDONERS: THE "COCKNEY SCHOOL" 7. Romanticism Lite: Talking, Walking and Name Dropping in the Cockney Essay 8. Allusions of Grandeur: Prophetic Authority and the Romantic City