From Experimental Poetics to Creative Legacies offers a comprehensive account of Language Poetry, tracing its origins, evolution, and enduring influence. It demonstrates how a movement emerging from American experimental writing in the 1970s has become a creative legacy with lasting relevance for twenty-first-century poetics.
Elizabeth Hitchener (1783–1821) is known for a brief but intense friendship with Percy Bysshe Shelley, during which he declared her 'the sister of my soul'. When, in 1812, the friendship fell apart, he labelled her 'The Brown Demon'.