The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

208 The Poetry of Mary Robinson coincide with the popularity of Gottfried August Bürger’s ballads, “Lenora” and “The Lass of Fai ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 209 number being the stress count. What is difficult to grasp about “the Alonzo meter” is that its practit ...

210 The Poetry of Mary Robinson “hear” the suggested rhythm in a line rather than placing emphasis where it ought to go, resulti ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 211 beats shows that Robinson, like Coleridge, is primarily interested in count ing stresses rather than c ...

212 The Poetry of Mary Robinson no connection, each is left alone. The thrust of the poem is not toward the social and communal, ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 213 powerful incantatory rhythms and rhyme of what we might call the “Black Tower” stanza, Robinson is abl ...

214 The Poetry of Mary Robinson antagonist is a successful farmer jealous of even the tiniest piece of his property while Robins ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 215 metrical feats such as employing trochaic sounds in the lines that fol- low the extra unstressed sylla ...

216 The Poetry of Mary Robinson functions similarly and also illustrates the metrical features described previously. The two thi ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 217 and “Goody Blake and Harry Gill” have more complex narrative and rhetorical interventions than most of ...

218 The Poetry of Mary Robinson employ internal rhymes, similar to some of the stanzas in “The R ime of the Ancyent Marinere.” M ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 219 similarly “too good to perish” after reading it in the Morning Post for 26 February 1800. Coleridge in ...

220 The Poetry of Mary Robinson noted that the “eerily haunting effects created by a combination of rhyme, meter, and repetition ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 221 Coleridge would have appreciated in the poem—Robinson’s nonce stanza is like the tide acting upon the ...

222 The Poetry of Mary Robinson with prosody and poetic form. Coleridge is quick to point out that Wordsworth’s poem borrows Rob ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 223 attempted by Southey in his poem “The Widow,” which, incidentally, the Anti- Jacobin mercilessly parod ...

224 The Poetry of Mary Robinson supposed lover and fellow poet and countryman, Alcæus. If so, Robinson rather implausibly appear ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 225 Sappho had been there before him, and that her Body could be no where found, he very generously lament ...

226 The Poetry of Mary Robinson I sing! Spirit of Light! to thee / Attune the varying strain of wood- wild harmony” (2: 135; 5–6 ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 227 Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep. A poem entitled “Mrs. Robinson to the Poet Coleridge” appear ...