Template:Did you know nominations/Beachy Head (poem)
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 16:31, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
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Beachy Head (poem)
- ... that the poem Beachy Head by Charlotte Turner Smith was written while Britons feared Napoleon's armies would invade at that spot? Source: "By 1805, as Smith was writing Beachy Head, tensions with France were at their highest pitch... A French attack was considered so imminent that thousands of British soldiers were stationed [at Beachy Head] in anticipation of their arrival." (Kevis Goodman "Conjectures on Beachy Head" p 988, on JSTOR)
ALT1:... that Charlotte Turner Smith wrote the poem Beachy Head after selling her library of 500 books to pay her debts? Source: "By the beginning of 1803 Smith was destitute... To settle her debts she sold her cherished collection of 500 books" (Blank, Antje. "Charlotte Smith". The Literary Encyclopedia)ALT2:... that the Romantic poem Beachy Head by Charlotte Turner Smith is "botanically exact and scientific yet charged with feeling"? Source: "Charlotte Smith's green language is botanically exact and scientific yet charged with feeling." (Donna Landry "Green Languages? Women Poets as Naturalists in 1653 and 1807" p 489, on JSTOR)
- Reviewed: none - this is my third DYK nomination
- Comment: ALT2 would probably be better as a paraphrase than as a quote, but I'm struggling to pithily capture the context (ie that, unlike other Romantic poetry which just discusses nature emotionally, this poem brings in botany and fossils).
Improved to Good Article status by Oulfis (talk). Self-nominated at 08:56, 2 May 2021 (UTC).
- Hi @Oulfis: well done on getting this article to WP:GA. It is certainly long enough, and neutrally written. Earwig picks up only titles and common phrases. Agree no QPQ needed. Please could you add sources to the end of two paragraphs - one in "Poetic speaker" and one in "Influences"? I am fine for the synopsis paragraphs not to have citations.
- I prefer ALT2, as ALT0 is unclear that Beachy Head is also the name of a specific place, and the source for ALT1 doesn't make the direct connection.
- Onceinawhile (talk) 21:58, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
- Hello @Onceinawhile:, thanks for taking a look! I've addressed those two sentences. ALT2 wasn't my favourite but I see your points and am happy to go with it. ~ oulfis 🌸(talk) 20:20, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi @Oulfis: thanks, good to go. Given your comment I have reverted to ALT0, but made two small improvements - I have linked the place Beachy Head, and I replaced French with Napoleon's so the time period is clear. Onceinawhile (talk) 20:47, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you, I really like the edits you made to ALT0! ~ oulfis 🌸(talk) 00:20, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
