Organising Poetry

Fairer, David

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“…Thomas Warton's poems deeply engage with the past; as Fairer has shown, images of recovering lost texts, springs, and forgotten sites abound in Thomas Warton's poems and symbolize the way he "reach[es] into the past for meanings to illuminate the present," a practice of which his appropriation of the sonnet is part. 11 As Samuel Johnson wrote of Warton's antiquated 1777 Poems:…”

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“…Fairer explores this literary retrogression through the river metaphor: "He [Pope] was someone against whom they [the Wartons] needed to define their own literary principles-they wished to reach back beyond him to neglected places upstream." 41 Thus, Thomas Warton's "Lodon" sonnet actualizes this reaching back "upstream" through literary history. His childhood setting of Basingstoke is literally upstream from Pope's location, allowing him to reclaim the Loddon from "Windsor Forest," return to the past, and divert the path of literary history through himself and on toward Bowles and other members of the Warton school, a divergence forcefully realized through their continuous flow of river sonnets.…”

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Literary Past and Present in Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets

Roberts¹

2014

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This essay considers Charlotte Smith’s treatment of the River Arun in her Elegiac Sonnets , focusing on how the river functions as a metaphor for literary influence and dramatizes her engagement with a range of poetic predecessors and contemporaries. In later editions of her sonnets, the sea replaces the river in importance and inscribes a rather different poetic outlook. In tracing the shift between river and sea, this essay offers a new way of situating and reading Smith’s sonnets as poems frequently celebrated for their innovation. This essay argues that the poems are nonetheless also deeply engaged with the literary past.

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