ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on six poets with well-documented transatlantic interests: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Thomas Moore, Thomas Campbell, and Felicia Hemans. The transition from Wordsworth to his friend, poetic collaborator, and fellow 'Laker', Coleridge, seems natural enough in any circumstances; author focus upon Wordsworth's response to Bartram's Travels in the previous section makes it an even more logical progression, since Bartram has an important place in Coleridge's intellectual history too. As people have seen, however, Coleridge typically pays scant attention to his rear-view mirror; his usual modus operandi is the smash-and-grab raid on another writer's most memorable and recombinable utterances. Whatever the precise inflection, it remains the case that Moore's travel sources work in an entirely different way supply an inspirational, affirming gloss in the Canadian, as opposed to the American, part of Epistles, Odes.
