Introduction
1: In the First Place
2: Lakes or Oceans?
3: Local Attachment and Adequate Poetry
4: Scott's Border Vision
5: Robert Burns's Addresses
6: Keats' In-Placeness
7: In the City
Bibliography
Fiona Stafford travelled widely as a child until her family settled
in Lincolnshire. She studied English at Leicester University before
undertaking post-graduate research in Oxford. While finishing her
D.Phil on Macpherson's Ossian, she worked as a lecturer at the
University of Evansville's British Campus and then returned to
Oxford to take up a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship at
Lincoln College. She was a lecturer at the University of
Northampton and St Anne's College, Oxford, before becoming a Fellow
of Somerville College in 1992. She has been a Professor of English
Language and Literature in the University of Oxford since 2008. Her
interests
include eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature, especially
the Romantic period; contemporary poetry; Scottish literature; the
literature of the four nations and relations between them; Austen.
Local Attachments makes for an elegant defence of Romantic
provincialism.
*David Stewart, Jason Whittaker, and Christopher Machell, Years
Work in English Studies*
Fiona Stafford's sharp senses which freshly illuminate even such
familar poems as Wordsworth's "Immortality" Ode and Burns's "Banks
and Braes".
*Katherine Duncan-Jones, Times Literary Supplement Books of the
Year 2010*
There is admirable ease and clarity in the way Stafford summarises
larger historical and philosophical shifts in order to
contextualise poetic position, making the book highly accessible...
it provides a clear, thorough and highly readable account of the
value of familiar places for major Romantic writers
*Sally Bushell, Times Higher Education Supplement*
This humane and eloquently written book presents an attachment to
locality as the ground for truthfulness in British Romantic
poetry.
*Keith Hanley, Modern Language Review*
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