In this 2007 work, Goldberg argues that Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge - the ‘Lake school’ - aligned themselves with emerging constructions of the ‘professional gentleman’ that challenged the vocational practices of late eighteenth-century British culture.
Contents:
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
