Lamb, Coleridge, and the Poetics of Publication.
This essay explores the poetics of Lamb's early letters to Coleridge. I argue for a sharp awareness, on Lamb's part, of the potentially negative effect publication can have on literary writing. Lamb resists this at the level of epistolary form, by entwining his sonnets with the letters into which he...
| Published in: | Romanticism Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 245 - 255 |
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