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This study re-places the prolific and controversial writer Robert Southey (1774–1843) within the literary context of the 1790s and beyond, a context in which he played so central a role.
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This study re-places the prolific and controversial writer Robert Southey (1774–1843) within the literary context of the 1790s and beyond, a context in which he played so central a role.
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In an attempt to re-place the controversial and somewhat marginalized writer Robert Southey within the literary context of the 1790s, Smith highlights the writer's influence on other Romantic projects of the period. His argument stresses his belief that Southey's experimentation with poetic form and subject greatly defined the cutting edge of literary fashion in the period. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
In an attempt to re-place the controversial and somewhat marginalized writer Robert Southey within the literary context of the 1790s, Smith highlights the writer's influence on other Romantic projects of the period. His argument stresses his belief that Southey's experimentation with poetic form and subject greatly defined the cutting edge of literary fashion in the period. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
