The poetry of the self-taught [electronic resource] : an eighteenth-century phenomenon / Julie Prandi.
Publication details: New York : Peter Lang, c2008.Description: vi, 202 pISBN:- 9781433102516 (cb alk. paper)
- 143310251X (cb alk. paper)
- 9781453903483 (e-book)
- English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- German poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Working class writings, English
- Working class writings, German
- Self-culture in literature
- Working class authors -- Great Britain
- Working class authors -- Germany
- Comparative literature -- English and German
- Comparative literature -- German and English
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- PR551 .P73 2008eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Backgrounds of self-taught poets -- What self-taught means for poetic form -- The aesthetics of the self-taught -- Patronage in poetry -- Analyses of social inequality -- Winter poems.
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