Canning's 'Sainte Guillotine' and Beddoes's 'Comet'. (April 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning
• Is Part Of: Keats-Shelley review. Volume 27:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 26
• Page End: 30
• Publication Date: 2013-04
• Subjects: Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- 'The Comet' -- Canning -- The Anti-Jacobin -- parody -- French Revolution; English poetry -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Romanticism -- England -- Periodicals; Periodicals; Periodicals; 821.709
• DOI: 10.1179/0952414213Z.00000000018
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0952-4142

Abstract

Abstract : Commentators have been puzzled by the inclusion of so crude and apparently juvenile a poem as 'The Comet' in Thomas Beddoes's first collection. This essay explains the difficulty by reading the poem as a parody in turn of the parodic poems in Canning's Anti-Jacobin .