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- Title
Editorial Introduction: Spasmodic Poetry and Poetics.
- Authors
Laporte, Charles; Rudy, Jason R.
- Abstract
This article presents a editorial introduction to spasmodic poetry and poetics. According to the American journal "Putnams' Monthly Magazine," about the first of May in the year 1853, "all the English papers came hurrying over the sea with a loud chorus of Eureka! Eureka! The coming man has arrived and his name is Smith!." The almost messianic triumphalism of this announcement now appears a bit startling, since it celebrates the little-known Glaswegian poet Alexander Smith, a member of the emerging "Spasmodic" school who had recently published his chef d'oeuvre, "A Life-Drama."
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); POETICS; SCHOOLS; LIFE-Drama, A (Book); SMITH, Alexander, ca. 1830-1867; PUBLISHING
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2004, Vol 42, Issue 4, p421
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0007