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- Title
"A Very Poetical Town": Newspaper Poetry and the Working-Class Poet in Victorian Dundee.
- Authors
BLAIR, KIRSTIE
- Abstract
The article offers poetry criticism of Victorian era poems published in the Dundee, Scotland newspapers "Dundee Courier," "Dundee Advertiser," and "Dundee, Perth and Forfar People's Journal" from 1858 to 1860. Poems addressed include "The Shepherd's Song" by Factorius, Dundee, the anonymous poem "Epitaph on John Cameron, the Piper (Dictated by Himself shortly before his Death)," and "Italian Freedom" by A Son of St Tammas, Arbroath. Rural and working-class aspects of the poems are noted.
- Subjects
DUNDEE (Scotland); UNITED Kingdom; SHEPHERD'S Song, The (Poem); EPITAPH on John Cameron, the Piper (Dictated by Himself shortly before his Death) (Poem); ITALIAN Freedom (Poem); WORKING class; HISTORY of newspapers; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2014, Vol 52, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2014.0009