Local Attachments
The Province of Poetry
Fiona Stafford
Reviews and Awards
Winner of The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize For English Literature 2011
"Local Attachments makes for an elegant defence of Romantic provincialism." - David Stewart, Jason Whittaker, and Christopher Machell, Years Work in English Studies
"Fiona Stafford's sharp senses which freshly illuminate even such familar poems as Wordsworth's "Immortality" Ode and Burns's "Banks and Braes"." - Katherine Duncan-Jones, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 2010
"There is admirable ease and clarity in the way Stafford summarises larger historical and philosophical shifts in order to contextualise poetic position, making the book highly accessible... it provides a clear, thorough and highly readable account of the value of familiar places for major Romantic writers" - Sally Bushell, Times Higher Education Supplement
"This humane and eloquently written book presents an attachment to locality as the ground for truthfulness in British Romantic poetry." - Keith Hanley, Modern Language Review