Romanticism, medicine, and the poet's body / James Robert Allard.

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007], ©2007.

viii, 166 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-159) and index.

Body conscious : vitalities, corporealities, and the anatomies of Romantic medicine -- Flesh and blood : Wordsworth, Baillie, and the Romantic body -- Great vital organs: Thelwall's The peripatetic, radical materialism, and the body politic -- Shap'd and palpable : Keats and the poet's body -- The body's laws : flesh, souls, and transgression in Beddoes's Death's jest-book -- Apollo's poets.