pPoetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. pIn his 1798 Advertisement to iLyrical Balladsi, William Wordsworth anticipates that readers accustomed to the poetic norms of the day might not recognize his experiments as poems and might signal their awkward confusion upon opening the book by looking round for poetry, as if seeking it elsewhere. iLook Round for Poetry itransforms Wordsworth's idiomatic expression into a methodological charge. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary economic, technological, and political discourse, iLook Round for Poetryi identifies poetry's untimely echoes in discourses not always read as poetry or not always read poetically. pOnce one begins looking round for poetry, McGrath insists, one might discover it in some surprising contexts. In chapters that spring from poems by Wordsworth, Lucille Clifton, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Sh