Dawson, P. M. S., review of Noel B. Gerson, Trelawny's World: A Biography of Edward John Trelawny, in Literature and Its Audience, I, ed. by G. K. Hunter and C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 10.1 (1980)), pp. 302–03, doi:10.2307/3506998

Dawson, P. M. S., review of William S. Peterson, Browning Institute Studies. Volume 5, in Literature and Its Audience, I, ed. by G. K. Hunter and C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 10.1 (1980)), pp. 313–14, doi:10.2307/3507007

Dawson, P. M. S., review of Lloyd Abbey, Destroyer and Preserver: Shelley's Poetic Skepticism, in Heroes and the Heroic, ed. by G. K. Hunter and C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 12.1 (1982)), pp. 299–300, doi:10.2307/3507466

Dawson, P. M. S., review of Betty T. Bennett, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Volume I. A Part of the Elect', in Satire: Essays in Memory of Robert C. Elliott 1914-1981, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 14.1 (1984)), pp. 334–36, doi:10.2307/3508345

Dawson, P. M. S., review of Miriam Allott, Essays on Shelley, in Anglo-French Literary Relations, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 15.1 (1985)), pp. 310–12, doi:10.2307/3508601

Dawson, P. M. S., review of Eric Robinson, David Powell, John Clare, The Later Poems of John Clare 1837-1864, in Modern Language Review, 81.1 (1986), pp. 178–80, doi:10.2307/3728789

Dawson, P. M. S., review of Michael Henry Scrivener, Radical Shelley: The Philosophical Anarchism and Utopian Thought of Percy Bysshe Shelley, in Literary Periodicals, ed. by C. J. Rawson (= Yearbook of English Studies, 16.1 (1986)), pp. 306–08, doi:10.2307/3507830

Dawson, P. M. S., review of John Clare, Eric Robinson, The Parish, in Modern Language Review, 83.1 (1988), pp. 161–62, doi:10.2307/3728574

Dawson, P. M. S., review of Mark Storey, John Clare, The Letters of John Clare, in Modern Language Review, 83.4 (1988), pp. 977–78, doi:10.2307/3730938