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Leonard, Angela Michele. "Reading Political Poetry: A Discourse Analysis of the Antislavery Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier and the Corn Law Rhymes of Ebenezer Elliott," Department of American Studies, George Washington University, January 1994.
Conventional literary criticism dismisses the political poetry of Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849) and of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) because of its explicitly agitational and functional character and not particularly aesthetic political opinions. But Elliott and Whittier deserve serious attention because their poetry countered “strategies of containment,” such as Britain’s Corn Laws and America’s institution of chattel slavery, respectively. The adopted methodology, “discourse analysis,” expands our understanding of these poets, intertextually links their verses to particular political reform movements and corresponding literary discourses of protest, and enlarges the canon of serious political poetry.
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