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Speakers and listeners in Tennyson’s dialect poems

Julia Courtney explores a little-known corner of pastoralism and shows how it shares some of the most significant features of the genre

By the time tennyson wrote ‘the Northern Farmer, Old Style’ in 1861 there was a strong Victorian tradition of dialect poetry
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AQA (A) Literature: ‘Victorian literature’

AQA (B) Literature: ‘Aspects of narrative: poetry 1800–1945’

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