Introduction: The presence of the past -- pt. 1. Ancestral voices: William Wordsworth -- S.T. Coleridge -- Lord Byron -- P.B. Shelley -- John Keats -- pt. 2. Modern echoes: Living it all again: W.B. Yeats and English romanticism -- Frost on the pumpkin -- Pound's prison graffiti: The Pisan cantos -- T.S. Eliot: apostate from romantic rule -- Wallace Stevens: Le vie antérieure and Le bel aujourdʼhui -- Et in Arcadia ego: Auden among the romantics.