Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface--R.Holmes -- Introduction--N.Roe -- PART I: LANDSCAPES AND LEGENDS -- More wondrous far than Egypts boasted pyramids: The South Wests Megaliths in the Romantic Period--J.Parker -- Al under the wyllowe tree: Chatterton and the Ecology of the West Country--N.Groom -- PART II: THE BRISTOL SCHOOL: COTTLE, COLERIDGE, AND THEIR CIRCLES -- Joseph Cottle and West-Country Romanticism--R.Cronin -- William Gilbert and his Bristol Circle 1788-98--P.Cheshire -- S.T. Coleridge, Joseph Cottle, and Some Bristol Baptists, 1794-96--T.Whelan -- Coleridges Bristol and West Country Radicalism--P.J.Kitson -- Radical Bible: Coleridges 1790s West Country Politics--A.J.Harding -- PART III: IMAGINING THE WEST COUNTRY -- Wordsworths 1793 Journey to the West Country and Wales--C.K.Walker -- Coleridge in Devon--G.Davidson -- Southeys West Country--L.Pratt -- Romantic Hydrography: Tide and Transit in Tintern Abbey--D.W.Davies -- The Road Not Taken: Robert Bloomfields Wye Valley and the Poetic Imagination--T.Fulford -- PART IV: IN PURSUIT OF SPRING -- The Outset of Life: Shelley, Hazlitt, the West Country, and the Revolutionary Imagination--M.ONeill -- Over the Dartmoor Black: John Keats and the West Country--N.Roe -- Going Westward: William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas--S.Yoshikawa -- Afterword--T.Mayberry -- Index.