1. Introduction / Philip Shaw -- 2. 'A few harmless Numbers': British women poets and the climate of war, 1793-1815 / Stephen C. Behrendt -- 3. The exiled self: images of war in Charlotte Smith's 'The Emigrants' / Jacqueline M. Labbe -- 4. The harsh delights of political duty: Thelwall, Coleridge, Wordsworth, 1795-99 / David Collings -- 5. Duty and mutiny: the aesthetics of loyalty and the representation of the British sailor c. 1798-1800 / Geoff Quilley -- 6. Invasion! Coleridge, the defence of Britain and the cultivation of the public's fear / Mark Rawlinson -- 7. War romances, historical analogies and Coleridge's Letters on the Spaniards / Diego Saglia -- 8. 'Of war and taking towns': Byron's siege poems / Simon Bainbridge -- 9. Leigh Hunt and the aesthetics of post-war liberalism / Philip Shaw -- 10. Marriage and the end of war / Eric C. Walker