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Labbe, Jacqueline M. (2008) Smith, Wordsworth, and the model of the Romantic poet. Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (No.51). ISSN 1916-1441.
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Abstract
This essay examines how Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth manipulate the autobiographical and elements of poetical voicing as they explore the figure of the Romantic Poet. Focusing on Beachy Head (1807) and The Prelude (1805), I suggest that in devising separate, competing but eventually equal “personal” voices in Beachy Head, and in interrogating tropes of genre and composition in The Prelude, the two poets signal their interest in using poetry to provide an answer to Wordsworth’s famous question, “What is a Poet?” For each, the model of the Romantic poet is most viable when, like wet clay, it is still able to be shaped.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net | ||||
Publisher: | Universite de Montreal | ||||
ISSN: | 1916-1441 | ||||
Official Date: | 2008 | ||||
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Number: | No.51 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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