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  3. Poetry as an Occupation and an Art in Britain, 1760–1830
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 August 2009
      05 August 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511519062
      9780521440851
      9780521020862
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519062
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.625kg, 284 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.435kg, 284 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (3)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (3)
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    Peter Murphy's book examines the tension between the material, economic pressures motivating poetry as an occupation, and traditional notions of the forces of literary history defining poetry as an art. It focuses on five writers in the Romantic period: James MacPherson, Robert Burns, James Hogg, Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth. The first four are Scottish; the economic and linguistic status of Scotland during the period makes its writers especially interesting as examples of poetic ambition. Murphy's study then crosses the border into England, offering a new perspective on Wordsworth's poetic ambition and career. Murphy's engagement throughout with the ballad revival yields fresh insights into some major concerns of the Romantic period: the interest in the primitive and the simple, experiments with poetic form, the problematics of loss, and the emergence of a new literary culture.

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