- Title
- Lucy Hutchinson and the authorship of two seventeenth-century poems: a computational approach
- Creator
- Burrows, John; Craig, Hugh
- Relation
- The Seventeenth Century Vol. 16, Issue 2, p. 259-282
- Relation
- http://journals.mup.man.ac.uk/cgi-bin/MUP?COMval=article&key=SVC/V16I2/160259.xml
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2001
- Description
- Two poems attributed to Lucy Hutchinson by David Norbrook prove to have strong affinities with the style of her known verse on quantitative measures. A twenty-canto versification of Genesis titled Order and Disorder and a much shorter rejoinder to Waller's 'Panegyrick' of Cromwell were tested, using data from the frequencies of very common words, and with a set of twenty-five poets and a group of other long poems as controls. With or without the selection of Hutchinson 'marker words' the target poems clustered with Hutchinson's other work in a way which leaves little doubt as to their authorship. These results confirm Norbrook's attribution and help establish quite a varied canon for Hutchinson, and one which is of considerable importance in Civil War and Restoration literary history.
- Subject
- Lucy Hutchinson; computational statistics attribution; literary history; Civil War and Restoration
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27047
- Identifier
- uon:1333
- Identifier
- ISSN:0268-117X
- Language
- eng
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