From the early nineteenth century onwards, there was a canon of British Romanticism taking shape in the colonies, which mirrored that of nineteenth-century Britain, and in turn generated responses from indigenous intellectuals in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The indigenous response to British Romanticism was, naturally, shaped by the British and colonial Romantic canon: lots of Byron, Burns, Scott, and Hemans, some Shelley, no Blake and only a little Keats. It was this version of Romanticism that settler and colonising populations took around the world and that became embedded in the new print cultures, libraries and school curricula of diasporic British communities across the globe. From those cultural sites, Romantic literature was then introduced to indigenous peoples, whose assimilation into a Western-style education system, sometimes voluntary but often forced, brought them into contact with the colonists’ favourite texts.