Stating that early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, this is a study of animal encounters in the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and William Wordsworth. "In Memorializing Animals, Pielak shows how animals have a place in the study of Romantic literature; their otherness provides the Romantics and us opportunities to rethink community and hospitality." - Ronald Broglio, Arizona State University "The bookis an excellent read for anyone with interests in nineteenth Century British poetry or a desire to learn about animal memorialism." - George E. Dickinson, College of Charleston