The Rhetoric of Smith and Wordsworth

While preparing for my presentation in class I came across this scholarly article about the rhetoric in many of the elegiac sonnets by romantic authors Smith and Wordsworth. I found it pretty interesting because just earlier this evening while reading over my notes and research I found the way Smith would randomly capitolize and add exclamation marks to her poetry pretty peculiar.. even thought to myself "I wonder why she chose to do that?" In the article it also discusses the reasoning behind much of Smith's mournful poetry, and why she and Wordsworth wrote of the poor and unfortunate. I have a new outlook on Smith's approach to her poetry now and view much of the pieces I read to be more in the humanitarian genre after researching and reading further into her intriguing rhetoric.

Check it out!

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10509580214655#preview