Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reading in the dark
  • Part I. Reading-pedagogy
  • 1. "Cozen'd" into knowledge: Locke
  • 2. On learning to read as not myself: Rousseau
  • Part II. Lyric-pedagogy
  • 3. Leaving the world to darkness: Gray
  • 4. The craving for incidents: Wordsworth
  • 5. Lyric yawns: Keats
  • Conclusion.