Charles (Tennyson) Turner and the Power of the Small Poetic Thing
The epigraph for his Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces volume is a Wordsworth phrase proclaiming "The sonnet's humble plot of ground" (Pinion, p. 31; actually a mis-memory of "the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground" in Wordsworth's sonnet "Nuns fret not at their convent...
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Published in | Victorian poetry Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 509 - 521 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Morgantown
West Virginia University Press
22.12.2010
West Virginia University Press, University of West Virginia West Virginia University |
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Summary: | The epigraph for his Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces volume is a Wordsworth phrase proclaiming "The sonnet's humble plot of ground" (Pinion, p. 31; actually a mis-memory of "the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground" in Wordsworth's sonnet "Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room"). See what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design! (II.49-56)2 Mindfulness of his younger brother's more acclaimed verses was evidently part of what had Turner so often stepping forward as a poet held back by his small mode's alleged incapacities. |
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ISSN: | 0042-5206 1530-7190 1530-7190 |
DOI: | 10.1353/vp.2010.a413063 |