Abstract
This essay presents a challenge to canon-centric ideas of poetic influence in a nineteenth-century transatlantic context. It does so by recovering the work of New Hampshire-based minor poet Robert Dinsmoor (1757–1836), and revealing how it served as "mediator of influence" between Robert Burns and John Greenleaf Whittier. More broadly, this case study suggests that culturally marginal literary figures and forms may have played a more influential part in shaping literary histories than has previously been recognised. This study on "mediated influence" contributes toward the bigger, ongoing task of unpacking intra-poetic relations in nineteenth-century transatlantic contexts.
DOI
10.1353/srm.2020.0008
Publication Date
2020-07-08
Publication Title
Studies in Romanticism
Volume
59
Issue
2
Publisher
Graduate School Boston University
ISSN
0039-3762
First Page
163
Last Page
184
Recommended Citation
Arun, S. (2020) 'Burns, Whittier, and the “Rustic Bard of New Hampshire”: Mediations in Transatlantic Reception and Influence', Studies in Romanticism, 59(2), pp. 163-184. Graduate School Boston University: Available at: https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2020.0008