"Southey’s considerable prelaureate output, from the radical 1790s to the wide-ranging experiments of the next decade, has not received the editorial treatment that current critical discussion of the Romantic period requires (the last complete edition was Southey’s own late-laureate self-canonizing). Lynda Pratt, Tim Fulford, and Daniel John Sanjiv Roberts have provided five volumes constituting a stellar critical edition, with reports on the significant revisions that many of these texts underwent from manuscript to first publication to final Southey-supervised Poetic Works. The editorial matter is scrupulous, informative, and generative, resulting in a rich scholarly resource that should now be the long-needed standard edition.” Timothy Brennan (University of Minnesota); Arthur Marotti (Wayne State University); and Susan Wolfson (Princeton University), Chair, Selection Committee, Modern Language of Association, Distinguished Scholarly Edition, biennial prize 2003-04. Awarded at the 121st MLA Annual Convention, 28 December 2005, Washington, DC.