The local poet in the romantic tradition

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Abstract: Many poems evoke a sense of place; few poems, however, forge a lasting connection between a poet and a particular locale. In "The Local Poet in the Romantic Tradition, " I chart the evolution of this latter type of poetry and document its influence on readerly tastes in Britain over the last two hundred and fifty years. Parting ways with previous studies, I take the view that local poetry is defined less by the invocation of specifically named locations, or even by a proclivity for amassing topographical detail, than by the cultivation of a special kind of poetic ethos. Drawing on the works of William Wordsworth as well as a range of pre- and post-Romantic poets, I examine different instantiations of this ethos and outline the contours of the tradition of local poetry in Britain from its origins in the eighteenth century to its rise to prominence in the Victorian era.

Type of resource	text
Form	electronic; electronic resource; remote
Extent	1 online resource.
Publication date	2012
Issuance	monographic
Language	English

Associated with	Donaldson, Christopher Elliott
Associated with	Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature
Primary advisor	Greene, Roland, 1957-
Thesis advisor	Greene, Roland, 1957-
Thesis advisor	Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich
Thesis advisor	Vermeule, Blakey
Advisor	Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich
Advisor	Vermeule, Blakey

Genre	Theses

Statement of responsibility	Christopher Donaldson.
Note	Submitted to the Department of Comparative Literature.
Thesis	Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012.
Location	electronic resource

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).

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