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- Title
THE LITERARY MODEL FOR ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE'S 'HISTORY OF JOSEPH'.
- Authors
Davis Perry, Lori A.
- Abstract
This article focuses on poet Elizabeth Singer Rowe and her pastoral epic "History of Joseph in Eight Books." A second edition, expanded to ten books, appeared soon after her death. The poem had been circulating in manuscript for many years, and Rowe left no dated manuscripts of the poem. However, the discovery of Rowe's literary model for the poem sheds significant light on its probable date of composition. Based upon striking similarities in subject matter, poetic style, and structure, the direct inspiration for Rowe's poem was almost certainly Daniel Baker's poem "Joseph," published in his "Poems Upon Several Occasions."
- Subjects
ROWE, Elizabeth Singer; POETRY (Literary form); HISTORY of Joseph in Eight Books (Book); MANUSCRIPTS; INSPIRATION; CREATIVE ability
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2005, Vol 52, Issue 3, p349
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gji318