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The hybrid poems of Smith and Wordsworth : questions and disputes
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Labbe, Jacqueline M. (2009) The hybrid poems of Smith and Wordsworth : questions and disputes. European Romantic Review, Vol.20 (No.2). pp. 219-226. doi:10.1080/10509580902840491 ISSN 1050-9585.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509580902840491
Abstract
This essay argues that in titling their debut collections with the hybrid forms of the “elegiac sonnet” and the “lyrical ballad,” Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth (the majority author of the volume he shared with S. T. Coleridge) participate in the late‐eighteenth‐century debate on what makes poetry. Through their collections they engage in conversation with theorists like Hugh Blair and John Newbery, and they use their poetry to advance a new idea: that by merging forms poetry itself evolves. Romantic diversity thus develops from their poetic responses to the efforts of Blair and Newbery to establish fixed and rigid boundaries to poetic form.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Romantic Review | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1050-9585 | ||||
Official Date: | 2009 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.20 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 219-226 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/10509580902840491 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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