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Importantly, this book continues the work of broadening the scope of Romantic literary scholarship. Through bringing album verse to the forefront of conversation about Romantic poetry, Matthews lays the groundwork for further investigation into the ways we have defined Romantic poetics, its relationship to manuscript and print culture, and the voices we have considered to be fundamental in shaping its aesthetic form and value. * Kacie L. Wills, Illinois College, Romantic Circles *

Matthews has written a fascinating book, happily combining a chronological and a thematic structure. Those working in the field will be grateful for her scrupulous documentation and the stimulating hints at the wealth of material that remains to be discovered. * Nora Crook, Charles Lamb Bulletin * Importantly, this book continues the work of broadening the scope of Romantic literary scholarship. Through bringing album verse to the forefront of conversation about Romantic poetry, Matthews lays the groundwork for further investigation into the ways we have defined Romantic poetics, its relationship to manuscript and print culture, and the voices we have considered to be fundamental in shaping its aesthetic form and value. * Kacie L. Wills, Illinois College, Romantic Circles *

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Samantha Matthews is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol. She has wide-ranging interdisciplinary research interests in the literary, visual, and material culture of the long nineteenth century (c. 1780-1920). Her first book, Poetical Remains: Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century (OUP, 2004), considered the productive relations between dead poets and their literal and literary 'remains.' She has a long-standing interest in book history and manuscript culture, particularly the creative possibilities of blank books. She is editing Charles Lamb's poetry for Oxford's new Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb.

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