InampampnbspRomanticisms Other Minds Poetry Cognition and the Science of SociabilityampampnbspJohn Savarese reassesses early relationships between Romantic poetry and the sciences uncovering a prehistory of cognitive approaches to literature and demonstrating earlier engagement of cognitive approaches than has heretofore been examined at length. Eighteenth and early nineteenthcentury writers framed poetry as a window into the minds original underlying structures of thought and feeling. While that Romantic argument helped forge a wellknown relationship between poetry and introspective or private consciousness Savarese argues that it also made poetry the staging ground for a more surprising set of debates about the naturally social mind. From James Macphersons forgeries of ancient Scottish poetry to Wordsworths and ColeridgesampampnbspLyrical Balladsampampnbsppoets mined traditional literatures and recent scientific conjectures to produce alternate histories of cognition histories that variously emphasized the impersonal the intersubjective and the collective. By bringing together poetics philosophy of mind and the physiology of embodied experienceand with major studies of James Macpherson Anna Letitia Barbauld William Wordsworth and Walter ScottRomanticisms Other Mindsampampnbsprecovers the interdisciplinary conversations at the heart of Romanticera literary theory.