Class and the Canon

Class and the Canon

Author: K. Blair

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 113703033X

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Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets.