The Literary Protégées of the Lake Poets
| By: | Low, Dennis, Mr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754655954 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409489849 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Dennis Low's re-evaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey was one of the nineteenth-century's greatest champions of women's writing. Together with Wordsworth and Coleridge, Low argues, Southey tried to end what he perceived to be the cultural decline of literature by nurturing the creative talents of many exceptional women writers.
Drawing on 3,000 unpublished manuscripts in England, Scotland and the United States, Low examines the lives and works of four of the Lake Poets' literary prot