"Let the nightingales alone" : correspondence columns, the Scottish press, and the making of the working-class poet

Blair, Kirstie (2014) "Let the nightingales alone" : correspondence columns, the Scottish press, and the making of the working-class poet. Victorian Periodicals Review, 47 (2). pp. 188-207. ISSN 1712-526X

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    Abstract

    This article examines the presence of poetry and poetic criticism in the correspondence columns of the mid-Victorian Scottish popular press. It argues that these columns are a major, unacknowledged resource in the working-class poetic tradition and that editorial advice helped to shape the form and content of newspaper poetry during this period. It also suggests that these columns fostered satirical as well as serious poetic production.

    Author(s):Blair, Kirstie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0040-3670
    Item type:Article
    ID code:58477
    Keywords:Victorian poetry, working-class, newspaper, Scottish literature, English literature, Criticism, Literature and Literary Theory
    Subjects:Language and Literature > English literature
    Language and Literature > Literature (General) > Criticism
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:04 Nov 2016 11:45
    Last modified:10 Dec 2019 10:10
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/58477
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