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Overview
I am a scholar of the literature of the Romantic period, especially the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). My research addresses the relationship between poetry and politics: how writers use poetry as a space to explore political questions and how formal or stylistic choices are related to political concerns. I also have research interests in literary relationships and influence.
I am the author of Coleridge's Political Poetics: Radicalism and Whig Verse, 1794-1802 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). My work has appeared in journals including Wordsworth Circle, Romanticism, and Notes & Queries. I contributed the chapter ‘Political Coleridge’ to The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Publication
2023
- Lloyd, J. 2023. Coleridge's political poetics: Radicalism and Whig Verse 1794 - 1802. Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-031-41877-8)
2022
- Lloyd, J. 2022. Political Coleridge. In: Fulford, T. ed. The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Cambridge University Press, pp. 14-29., (10.1017/9781108935555.002)
- Lloyd, J. 2022. ‘Less gross than bodily’: Berkeleian idealism in ‘This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison’. Romanticism 28(1), pp. 24-35. (10.3366/rom.2022.0534)
- Lloyd, J. 2022. The politics of superstition in “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere,” Osorio, and The Borderers. The Wordsworth Circle 53(2), pp. 222-248. (10.1086/719989)
2019
- Lloyd, J. 2019. Coleridge’s first reading of John Thelwall’s prison poetry. Notes and Queries 66(2), pp. 229-231. (10.1093/notesj/gjz039)
Articles
- Lloyd, J. 2022. ‘Less gross than bodily’: Berkeleian idealism in ‘This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison’. Romanticism 28(1), pp. 24-35. (10.3366/rom.2022.0534)
- Lloyd, J. 2022. The politics of superstition in “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere,” Osorio, and The Borderers. The Wordsworth Circle 53(2), pp. 222-248. (10.1086/719989)
- Lloyd, J. 2019. Coleridge’s first reading of John Thelwall’s prison poetry. Notes and Queries 66(2), pp. 229-231. (10.1093/notesj/gjz039)
Book sections
- Lloyd, J. 2022. Political Coleridge. In: Fulford, T. ed. The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Cambridge University Press, pp. 14-29., (10.1017/9781108935555.002)
Books
- Lloyd, J. 2023. Coleridge's political poetics: Radicalism and Whig Verse 1794 - 1802. Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-031-41877-8)
Research
My first monograph, Coleridge’s Political Poetics, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in December 2023. This book is the first to consider Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s engagement with ‘Whig poetry’: a tradition of verse from the 18th Century which celebrated the political and constitutional arrangements of Britain as guaranteeing liberty. I argue that Coleridge was able to articulate radical ideas in the 1790s under the cover of widely accepted principles through his references to this poetry. He positioned his poetry within a mainstream discourse even as he favoured radical social change.
I am in the early stages of a new project which considers how Romantic poets explored the concept of liberty, especially in a political sense, through poetic form.
Teaching
I teach the following undergraduate modules:
- 'Introduction to Romantic Poetry'
- 'Second-generation Romantic Poets'
- 'Romantic Circles: Collaboration, Radicalism and Creativity 1770–1830'
Biography
I Joined ENCAP in January 2024. I previously taught at Stanford University in Oxford and at Balliol College, Oxford.
I completed my DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2019. I also have a BA from Jesus College, Oxford and an MA from the University of Bristol.