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The so-called primitive poets of the eighteenth century were seldom given a chance to define themselves and their aspirations; this privilege was claimed by those who considered themselves in charge, who believed themselves to be in an educational and social position which gave them the right to categorize these poets and require them to fulfil certain expectations.
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Thomas Blackwell, An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer (London, 1735) p. 119.
William Duff, Essay on Original Genius and its Various Modes of Exertion in Philosophy and the Fine Arts, Particularly in Poetry (London: Dilly, 1767), p. 262. Duff, ibid., pp. 271–2.
See John Barrell, Literature in History, 1730–1780: An Equal, Wide Survey ( London: Hutchinson, 1983 ), p. 91.
William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More 4 vols (London: Seeley and Burnside, 1834), vol. 1, pp. 12–13.
See Richard Greene, Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Poetry (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993); and Betty Rizzo, ‘The Patron as Poet-maker: the Politics of Benefaction’, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 20 (1990), pp. 241–6.
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Waldron, M. (1999). ‘This Muse-born Wonder’: the Occluded Voice of Ann Yearsley, Milkwoman and Poet of Clifton. In: Armstrong, I., Blain, V. (eds) Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27024-8_7
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