Charles Bucke, who stood at the periphery of Romantic literary circles, is remembered chiefly as a hack writer in the employment of publisher John Murray, among others. In a 21 April 1813 letter to Murray, George Gordon, Lord Byron, observed, "I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week.... I presume all your Scribblers will be drawn up in battle array in defence of the modern Tonson--Mr. Bucke for instance." Bucke's attempts at fame and literary success, especially his play The Italians (1819), are noteworthy for their failure. Yet On the Beauties, Harmonies and Sublimities of Nature (1821), his most enduring work, is a lucid and thorough exposition of the Romantic search for the sublime and the beautiful in nature. In this work, he provides a natural and philosophical context that shows the coherence and continuity between Edmund Burke's treatment in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas...