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This book examines the tension between the material, economic pressures motivating poetry as an occupation, and traditional notions defining poetry as an art. It focuses on five writers in the Romantic period: James MacPherson, Robert Burns, James Hogg, Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.Murphy, Peter T. is the author of 'Poetry As an Occupation and an Art in Britain 1760-1830' with ISBN 9780521440851 and ISBN 0521440858.
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