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The Sonnets of Thomas Pringle
Migration and Poetic Form
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When the Scottish poet Thomas Pringle emigrated to the Cape Colony in 1820 he voyaged also into a new creative life and an art responsive to his colonial home, âsterner verseâ for âdarker scenesâ. Accompanying him to the Cape, the sonnet became his most consistent choice for capturing his experiences and convictions, his personal crises and the greater trauma of colonial appropriation and racial oppression. In this study his unique contribution to the Romantic-era sonnet is for the first time given its full due, through readings that are as attentive to form and formal agency as to the cultural, social and historical conditions in which they are enmeshed. Moving beyond colonial theory to consider issues of literary migration, this illuminating work shows how Pringle effectively opened up a radical conversation between the habitual modes of perception and response of British Romanticism and his new, southern world.
Patrick Lenahan is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Pretoria. He is a co-editor of Voices of this Land: An Anthology of South African Poetry in English.
"Overall, Lenahan situates Pringle in the cosy narrative of 'Cape liberalism' that portrays the British settlers at the Cape as champions of free speech, literary taste formation and Indigenous rights. [...] The careful close readings of the thirty-three sonnets that Pringle has left to posterity make a compelling argument for Pringle's inclusion within the canons of Scottish and British Romanticism." - Lars Atkin, University of Kent, England in Scottish Literary Review, Volume 16, Number 2 Autumn/Winter 2024, pp.194-198.
Preface
List of Illustrations
Chronology of Thomas Pringleâs Life and Works
Introduction
â The Cabin and the Sonnet
1 Edinburgh Sonnets
â In the Walks of British Literature
2 Sonnets of Passage
â Darker Scenes, Sterner Verse
3 Cape Sonnets: In Genadendal
â Short Solace in Narrow Rooms
4 Cape Sonnets: On the Frontier
â Friendshipâs Golden Chain
5 London Sonnets
â The Sympathy of Strangers
Conclusion
â A Romanticism of the South
Appendix 1: The Complete Sonnets of Thomas Pringle
Appendix 2: Pringleâs Sonnet Types
Appendix 3: Pringleâs âSelection of Sonnets, Songs & Other Poems â Chiefly from the Works of Living Authorsâ (1814)
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Chronology of Thomas Pringleâs Life and Works
Introduction
â The Cabin and the Sonnet
1 Edinburgh Sonnets
â In the Walks of British Literature
2 Sonnets of Passage
â Darker Scenes, Sterner Verse
3 Cape Sonnets: In Genadendal
â Short Solace in Narrow Rooms
4 Cape Sonnets: On the Frontier
â Friendshipâs Golden Chain
5 London Sonnets
â The Sympathy of Strangers
Conclusion
â A Romanticism of the South
Appendix 1: The Complete Sonnets of Thomas Pringle
Appendix 2: Pringleâs Sonnet Types
Appendix 3: Pringleâs âSelection of Sonnets, Songs & Other Poems â Chiefly from the Works of Living Authorsâ (1814)
Bibliography
Index
Academic libraries; specialists / post-graduate students focussed on:
South African poetry;
Scottish 19th century poetry, specifically of the Scottish diaspora;
Romanticism;
The literature of Empire;
Anti-slavery / abolitionist poetry.
South African poetry;
Scottish 19th century poetry, specifically of the Scottish diaspora;
Romanticism;
The literature of Empire;
Anti-slavery / abolitionist poetry.