Authors

S Arun

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

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