London Sonnets: The Sympathy of Strangers

Patrick Lenahan

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The Sympathy of Strangers

In: The Sonnets of Thomas Pringle

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Pages:: 205–263

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004549937_007

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The last phase of Pringle’s career commenced with his arrival back in London in 1826, and his recruitment by the Anti-Slavery Society. Here he wrote his last major sonnets, under the strong influence of the abolitionist movement, but still reflecting his South African experiences, and, if anything, even more outspoken in his promotion of the interests of the Cape’s indigenous population. The series of sonnets examined here are amongst the most powerful indictments of racial injustice that he, or any other poet of the period, ever composed: “The Bushman”, “The Hottentot” and “The Caffer”. All these, but also a fourth sonnet, “Slavery”, are saturated with the tropes and strategies employed by the anti-slavery poetry of an earlier generation, and as such represent a significant resurgence of the great Romantic engagement with abolition that, by the late 1820s may otherwise have been considered long over.

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The Sonnets of Thomas Pringle

Migration and Poetic Form

Series: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, Volume: 33 and SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature Online, Volume: 33

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004549937

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 15 Jun 2023

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