Sketches among the poor
| dc.contributor | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.contributor.author | Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T09:57:37Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T09:57:37Z |
| dc.date.created | 1837 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3111 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3111 |
| dc.description.abstract | First edition published in 1837. |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Poems -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.title | Sketches among the poor |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.size | 260800 |
| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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Sketches among the Poor by Elizabeth Gaskell 'Sketches among the Poor, No. I', a poem in rhyming couplets of 153 lines, was almost certainly written in the summer of 1836. It appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine > the following January, sandwiched between 'The World We Live In' (an article about Peel and the constitution) and the final piece in a satirical series called 'Alcibiades the Man'. The placing is oddly appropriate since the Gaskells' poem is about the world they lived in—a world light-years from Westminster—and it is about wisdom, the unspoken philosophy of a woman, not an articulate man. Jenny Uglow, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories > (London: Faber and Faber, 1993), p.101. SKETCHES AMONG THE POOR, NO. I In childhood's days, I do remember me Of one dark house behind an old elm-tree, By gloomy streets surrounded, where the flower Brought from the fresher air, scarce for an hour Retained its fragrant scent; yet men lived there, Yea, and in happiness; the mind doth c . . .
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