New introduction
Voices from the common grave of liberty
"Europe was rejoiced": responses to revolution, 1789-1791
"Pretty hot in it": Wordsworth in France, 1791-1792
"Mr Frend's company": Cambridge, dissent, and Coleridge
"War is again broken out": protest and poetry, 1793-1798
"A light bequeathed": Coleridge, Thelwall, Wordsworth, Godwin
"A sympathy with power": imagining Robespierre
Inner emigrants: kindly interchange, rash disdain
Epilogue: daring to hope
Appendix 1: Wordsworth and Daniel Isaac Eaton's Philanthropist
Appendix 2: Wordsworth's lost satire.