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The poem explores the memory of the speaker and their experiences in a faraway city they spent time in as a child. The narrator reminisces about the place through their childhood eyes, although we see conflict between this and their adult perception of her homeland. The narrator pictures in their mind the country or city where (s)he was born. [2]
Rumens was Poetry Editor for the publisher Quarto (1982–84) and the literary Review (1984–88). Her work has appeared in The Guardian [ 3 ] and Harper's . [ 4 ] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984.
Smith linked the poem to William Cowper's blank verse poem The Task (1785), both in the preface to the work and in her correspondence with publishers. In 1792, she wrote to the bookseller J. Dodsley for advice on publishing The Emigrants, saying it is written "in the way of the Task--only of course inferior to it" and saying that the final draft of the poem "will be corrected by the very first ...
Born in south-east London, Fanthorpe was the daughter of a judge, [1] or as she put it "middle-class but honest parents". [2] She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, in Surrey, and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she "came to life", [2] receiving a first-class degree in English language and literature.
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