tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post4144407807478136849..comments2024-03-27T21:43:02.451-04:00Comments on NEW SAVANNA: On the Direction of 19th Century Poetic Style, Underwood and Sellers 2015Bill Benzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-36115851214018945042015-06-26T09:05:19.510-04:002015-06-26T09:05:19.510-04:00[ edited to correct typos, improve style, etc]
He...[ edited to correct typos, improve style, etc]<br /><br />He may not have been published (much) between 1820-1919, but he was certainly "doiing poetry" well within those boundaries. But I'm not too worried whether he was included or not -- even if he wasn't it would be interesting to make a comparison. <br /><br />Adding: <br /><br />I've now downloaded Underwood & Charles Cameron (hipbone)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13765294963993981323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-17621971643035682512015-06-26T09:02:36.851-04:002015-06-26T09:02:36.851-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Charles Cameron (hipbone)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13765294963993981323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-78236600197595556922015-06-25T17:10:22.031-04:002015-06-25T17:10:22.031-04:00Given his publication date it's possible that ...Given his publication date it's possible that Hopkins wasn't included in the study at all. You might want to read the original paper, which says a bit about the characteristics of the poetry selected by elite journals. They tend to be dark in tone and to use concrete language, a rather broad specification.Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-11356774107485876542015-06-25T11:51:03.753-04:002015-06-25T11:51:03.753-04:00I'd be very interested to see how GM Hopkins w...I'd be very interested to see how GM Hopkins would plot out, using the actual dates for the MS of his specific poems, against the overall trend described, Bill. To my human eye and ear, he was such an outlier -- hence inter alia the almost complete absence of publication of his major works in his lifetime (1844-89), the posthumous first publication of the majority of his poems in 1918 & Charles Cameron (hipbone)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13765294963993981323noreply@blogger.com