The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

228 The Poetry of Mary Robinson quoted phrases from his unpublished poem. In any event, he let the matter drop, perhaps hoping t ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 229 with the author himself as her guide: she cries, “SPIR IT DIVINE! with THEE I’ll trace / Imagination’s ...

230 The Poetry of Mary Robinson poem is its explicit and deliberate replication of various features of the meter and structure o ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 231 into question the overdeterminacy of meter and rhyme, what Wesling calls “the scandal of form,” about ...

232 The Poetry of Mary Robinson and as a poem about the arbitrary nature of poetic form and its inher- ent pleasures in and of i ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 233 prominent couplets disguise its form, and it ends in long hymnal mea- sure, mocking the rhyme scheme t ...

234 The Poetry of Mary Robinson deconstruction of Coleridge’s poem, The echoes of the semirefrain reverberating at the end of th ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 235 Robinson’s poetic reading of “Kubla Khan” fixes Coleridge’s “extatic” poem in form. This is what she d ...

236 The Poetry of Mary Robinson muse. Eventually Coleridge enjoyed performing the poem for other poets whom he felt might apprec ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 237 familiarity (to use Coleridge’s own phrase) from “Kubla Khan” and compare it with, say, Coleridge’s “S ...

238 The Poetry of Mary Robinson will see the poem as essentially Della Cruscan. Indeed, the most obvi- ous poetic precursor to C ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 239 THE WOR LD” (13–4). She sings a “mystic strain” that seduces the very landscape itself; the allegorica ...

240 The Poetry of Mary Robinson poetic romance? We might recall the critic for the English Review who described the poetry of De ...

Stuart’s Laureates II 241 Envoi Robinson wanted thereby to earn the wreath of fame, but she did not want the laurel reserved for ...

242 The Poetry of Mary Robinson performing fame through form and actually earning it. Similarly, when she praises Coleridge as S ...

Notes Introduction: The Wreath of Fame The Latin is from Horace, Odes 3.30: “I have built a lasting monument.” One might also a ...

244 Notes Davenport’s, which is the most reliable. For a shorter, more general introduction to Robinson as a writer, I recommend ...

Notes 245 introductions to their respective books. Three important collections of essays on Romantic- period women writers appea ...

246 Notes Merry, who was prone to radical sentiments, may have found mem- bership in the academy a way to associate with Tuscan ...

Notes 247 Again, I am indebted to Werkmeister’s scholarship; she devotes two lengthy chapters to the two Star newspapers and at ...