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Poems

Misc

"Fiddler of the Reels"

• handles the (indirect) impact of the Great Exhibition on four people's lives
• see Black 2000
• also an interesting phrase about periodicity and history in literary texts:

For South Wessex, the year [1851] formed in many ways an extraordinary chronological frontier or transit line, at which there occured what one might call a precipice in Time. As in a geological 'fault', we had presented to us a sudden bringing together of ancient and modern into absolute contiguity, such as probably in no other single year since the Conquest was ever witnessed in this part of the country.

• Also Gidal 2015