The Sonnets of Thomas Pringle

Migration and Poetic Form
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53379-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature

When the Scottish poet Thomas Pringle emigrated to the Cape Colony in 1820 he voyaged also into a new creative life and an art responsive to his colonial home, “sterner verse” for “darker scenes”. Accompanying him to the Cape, the sonnet became his most consistent choice for capturing his experiences and convictions, his personal crises and the greater trauma of colonial appropriation and racial oppression. In this study his unique contribution to the Romantic-era sonnet is for the first time given its full due, through readings that are as attentive to form and formal agency as to the cultural, social and historical conditions in which they are enmeshed. Moving beyond colonial theory to consider issues of literary migration, this illuminating work shows how Pringle effectively opened up a radical conversation between the habitual modes of perception and response of British Romanticism and his new, southern world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lenahan, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Chronology of Thomas Pringle’s Life and Works

Introduction

The Cabin and the Sonnet

1 Edinburgh Sonnets

In the Walks of British Literature

2 Sonnets of Passage

Darker Scenes, Sterner Verse

3 Cape Sonnets: In Genadendal

Short Solace in Narrow Rooms

4 Cape Sonnets: On the Frontier

Friendship’s Golden Chain

5 London Sonnets

The Sympathy of Strangers

Conclusion

A Romanticism of the South

Appendix 1: The Complete Sonnets of Thomas Pringle

Appendix 2: Pringle’s Sonnet Types

Appendix 3: Pringle’s “Selection of Sonnets, Songs & Other Poems – Chiefly from the Works of Living Authors” (1814)

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Lenahan is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Pretoria. He is a co-editor of Voices of this Land: An Anthology of South African Poetry in English.