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- Title
"Spasm" and Class: W. E. Aytoun, George Gilfillan, Sydney Dobell, and Alexander Smith.
- Authors
Boos, Florence S.
- Abstract
This article presents information related to spasmodic poets. Confronted with critical disregard of their work by social/literary superiors, working--and lower-middle-class poets faced certain recurrent dilemmas in their attempts to frame individual and collective identities. In this essay the author will consider such nuances of social class in the Spasmodic controversy and focus primarily on opposing critics W. E. Aytoun and George Gilfillan and the effects of the controversy on Sydney Dobell, "home-schooled" author of "The Roman and Balder; and Alexander Smith, a modestly educated pattern designer who published "A Life-Drama," "City Poems," and "Edwin of Deira."
- Subjects
SPASMS; POETS; DILEMMA; ESSAYS; CRITICS; DESIGNERS; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2004, Vol 42, Issue 4, p553
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0002