Pedagogy Apr 2018

Landon the Equivocal Canonizer

Harriet Kramer Linkin

Abstract

This essay suggests that students can gain a deeper appreciation for how nineteenth-century women poets inscribe themselves into poetic traditions by building networks of references to one another. It highlights Landon as the pivotal poet in a chain of elegies that canonize Tighe, Hemans, Landon, Jewsbury, Barrett Browning, and Rossetti.

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Pedagogy
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2018-04-01
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10.1215/15314200-4359165
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