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“HE SINGS ALONE”: HYBRID FORMS AND THE VICTORIAN WORKING-CLASS POET

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2009

Kirstie Blair
Kirstie Blair*
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University of Glasgow
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In 1868, Alexander Wallace paused in his introduction to the life and works of Janet Hamilton, a respected Scottish working-class poet, to note his subject's interest in literary parlour games: “Janet asked us if we had ever tried the writing of Cento verses, which she characterized as a pleasant literary amusement for a meeting of young friends in a winter's night.”

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , September 2009 , pp. 523 - 541
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