2010/06/01 by Monica Smith Hart · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Modernist Literature and Criticism #Poetry Analysis and Criticism #Travel Writing and Literature #Trope (literature) #Romance #Lyrics #Persona #Literature #Poetry #Nationalism #Subject (documents) #Politics #Natural (archaeology) #Art #Philosophy #History #Humanities #Law
paper · doi:10.1353/pan.0.0183
openalex publication_date 2010/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The essay argues that typical readings of Smith as a poet writing in a traditional Romantic mode, creating lyrics that depict a melancholic individual subject drawing inspiration and education from the natural world, risk marginalizing her. Recognizing exile as both biographical reality and literary trope is central to an understanding of Smith's verse, for she also wrote poetry with a significant political agenda, one that distinguishes her from her early Romantic contemporaries and challenges the parameters of English Romantic nationalist discourse.