The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

8 The Poetry of Mary Robinson Coleridge considered her to be a good poet. Her poems to him were among her final compositions, an ...

Introduction 9 Coleridge’s assessment thus provides a teleology for this book, which examines Robinson’s poetic career in terms ...

10 The Poetry of Mary Robinson impulse of her genius appears to have been more peculiarly directed: even in the earliest of her ...

Introduction 11 a drastic shift in the way they employed and thought about them (68). Robinson employs many of these same famili ...

12 The Poetry of Mary Robinson gendered codes for women writers, appearing frequently in reviews of male poets as well as of fem ...

Introduction 13 forms and interests during the period; and Paula R. Backshcheider’s Eighteenth- Century Women Poets and Their Po ...

14 The Poetry of Mary Robinson the political atmosphere of the early 1790s. Here, Robinson becomes involved in the careful const ...

Chapter 1 Bell’s Laureates I: Robinson’s Avatars and the Della Crusca Network Are you Anna Matilda, or Della Crusca, or Laura Ma ...

16 The Poetry of Mary Robinson early on defined her poetry as “Della Cruscan.” As Martha suggests, the allegorical nature of the ...

Bell’s Laureates I 17 newspaper the Oracle. And, of course, Robinson had been known as “the English Sappho” since the publicatio ...

18 The Poetry of Mary Robinson reminder in The Natural Daughter of Laura Maria’s connection to Della Crusca and Anna Matilda. At ...

Bell’s Laureates I 19 consumption, therefore, shows how she was able to adopt the strate- gies of the network she wants to join. ...

20 The Poetry of Mary Robinson a text and their relation to the person writing” (890). Of course, Griffin’s point—and Foucault’s ...

Bell’s Laureates I 21 which is limiting because it assumes that the pseudonyms are characters with coherence and consistency. Bu ...

22 The Poetry of Mary Robinson FEIGNED Signatures: had she avowed them at an earlier period the plea- sure she now feels would h ...

Bell’s Laureates I 23 Chapel,” both in octosyllabic couplets, which is the form of many of Robinson’s Oberon poems. Robinson’s f ...

24 The Poetry of Mary Robinson multiplicity of allusions, characters, texts, contexts, intertexts, and modes. Robinson’s use of ...

Bell’s Laureates I 25 I heard the sympathetic Sigh Upon her lip’s vermilion die [sic]. (1: 76; 37–50) This passage employs the t ...

26 The Poetry of Mary Robinson poem. On 17 March 1792, the Oracle printed an unsigned response, “Oberon and Titania,” written by ...

Bell’s Laureates I 27 an antidote to her painful sensibility. This portrayal of Oberon likely influenced the original Il Ferito ...