The poetics of decline in British Romanticism From morals to measurement: scaling time anticipating the future and quantifying decline in Gibbon Smith and Playfair The decline of literature: acceleration print saturation and media time The politics of prediction: Anna Barbauld and the ruins of London On ruins: contingency time parallax and The Ruined Cottage Coleridges Slow Time Fast time slow time deep time: the pace of Romanticism