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Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830The Minstrel Goes to Market: the Prizes and Contests of James Hogg, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Felicia Hemans

Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830: The Minstrel Goes to Market: the Prizes and Contests of James... [In his Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards (1786), Joseph Cooper Walker equivocates as he speculates on the existence of ancient contests of bards or minstrels: ‘We have good reason to believe, that the ancient Irish had Musical Contests; but, as we want the authority of history to support us, we will not venture to assert that they had’ (98). Walker has more ‘authority’ to support a description of a modern contest, however, and he allows himself a long footnote on that subject. The note begins, In the Dublin Evening Post of July, 1784, there appeared the following advertisement, which was re-published in July, 1785.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Literary Minstrelsy, 1770–1830The Minstrel Goes to Market: the Prizes and Contests of James Hogg, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Felicia Hemans

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
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[In his Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards (1786), Joseph Cooper Walker equivocates as he speculates on the existence of ancient contests of bards or minstrels: ‘We have good reason to believe, that the ancient Irish had Musical Contests; but, as we want the authority of history to support us, we will not venture to assert that they had’ (98). Walker has more ‘authority’ to support a description of a modern contest, however, and he allows himself a long footnote on that subject. The note begins, In the Dublin Evening Post of July, 1784, there appeared the following advertisement, which was re-published in July, 1785.]

Published: Oct 21, 2015

Keywords: Woman Writer; Love Story; English Poet; Prize Competition; Modern Editorial

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