The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

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Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters Series Editor: Marilyn Gaull This series presents original biographical, critical, an ...

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THE POETRY OF MARY ROBINSON Copyright © Daniel Robinson, 2011. All rights reserved. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLA ...

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Poor poet! happy art thou, thus remov’d From pride and folly!—for in thy domain Thou can’st command thy subjects;—fill thy lines ...

Contents Acknowledgments ix A Note on Sources and Symbols xi Introduction: The Wreath of Fame 1 1 Bell’s Laureates I: Robinson’s ...

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Acknowledgments First and foremost, I thank Marilyn Gaull for her support and guid- ance. I hope that the present study proves w ...

x Acknowledgments Romanticism, Then and Now,” at the University of Nebraska, where I finished writing this book. I am grateful t ...

A Note on Sources and Symbols Unless otherwise indicated, my citations of Robinson’s works are to the Pickering & Chatto edi ...

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Introduction: The Wreath of Fame Where there is so much to admire, we may be excused the unpleas- ing task of busy censure; we h ...

2 The Poetry of Mary Robinson actress, sex symbol, courtesan, fashionable spectacle, and the subject of titillating gossip. Like ...

Introduction 3 The poems in particular perform Robinson’s self- ref lexive obses- sion, not with celebrity, but with literary fa ...

4 The Poetry of Mary Robinson was essentially a euphemism for “whore,” persists in the titles of all three of the recent biograp ...

Introduction 5 performing Perdita in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is immediately familiar to us. We have peculiar access, mor ...

6 The Poetry of Mary Robinson figure, could actually choose one over the other, but because I think her desire for poetic fame w ...

Introduction 7 Robinson had a confidence in her poetry that, given her disappear- ance for two centuries, may seem absurd. But s ...