Acknowledgements Introduction: professionalism and the Lake School of Poetry Part 1. Romanticism, Risk, and Professionalism: 1. Cursing Doctor Young, and after Part II. Genealogies of the Romantic Wanderer: 2. Merit and reward in 1729 3. James Beattie and The Minstrel Part III. Romantic Itinerants: 4. Authority and the itinerant cleric 5. William Cowper and the itinerant Lake poet Part IV. The Lake School, Professionalism, and the Public: 6. Robert Southey and the claims of literature 7. 'Ministry more palpable': Wordsworth's Romantic professionalism Notes Bibliography Index.
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