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 inVictorian poetry Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 509 - 521
Main Author CUNNINGHAM, VALENTINE
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 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.
ISSN:0042-5206
1530-7190
1530-7190
DOI:10.1353/vp.2010.a413063