The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

28 The Poetry of Mary Robinson Fair TRUTH shall snatch a Wreath, TO DECK HIS PARENT MUSE! (1: 210–1; 8–14) Perhaps out of a sens ...

Bell’s Laureates I 29 Sunday Last” [2: 57–8]), another lyric marveling at the spectacle of Georgiana in her “new and splendid ca ...

30 The Poetry of Mary Robinson The most remarkable of Robinson’s Oberon poems is “The Camp,” which Paula Feldman describes as “a ...

Bell’s Laureates I 31 with the sound of the witches’ incantation. Because of its formal effi- ciency and satirical clarity, this ...

32 The Poetry of Mary Robinson gallery of avatars are Laura, Laura Maria, Oberon, Portia, Tabitha Bramble, and Sappho, although ...

Bell’s Laureates I 33 care for a sickly teenage daughter and an elderly mother. Moreover, she was partially incapacitated by a m ...

34 The Poetry of Mary Robinson her well- deserved fall from fashionable celebrity into penury and debility. Around the time of h ...

Bell’s Laureates I 35 movement, as those critics deplored it as being. Even though Topham glibly dubbed the group “the Della Cru ...

36 The Poetry of Mary Robinson the World also would have been Robinson’s preferred source for the latest news—political, fashion ...

Bell’s Laureates I 37 commercially and poetically. The Times for 1 January 1789 suggested that Bell’s indecent Apollo might be a ...

38 The Poetry of Mary Robinson Register for that year praises the two titles for having “afforded us much pleasure and entertain ...

Bell’s Laureates I 39 ingenious countrywoman far excels all that we know of the works of the Grecian Sappho. (448) Most often re ...

40 The Poetry of Mary Robinson the making of bread (Yates 18). Merry knew this history. Moreover, he never claimed to be a membe ...

Bell’s Laureates I 41 Because the World f o r 2 9 Ju n e 17 8 7 i s r a r e — I f o u n d i t a t t h e N e w b e r r y in Chica ...

42 The Poetry of Mary Robinson Della Crusca’s poem. Her response exclusively figures itself in terms of the frisson of reading h ...

Bell’s Laureates I 43 A playful network emerges when we consider the maneuverings and in- jokes of its participants and the evid ...

44 The Poetry of Mary Robinson gives. Following her “various impulse,” Cowley plays with syllabics, largely eschewing strict met ...

Bell’s Laureates I 45 having “grown a breathless statue at the sound” of a “female voice,” Anna Matilda retorts, Thy statue torn ...

46 The Poetry of Mary Robinson innovations afforded created an apparent incongruity. Expressing some reservations about its jour ...

Bell’s Laureates I 47 Popular culture always seeks, in spite of the odds, its own perpetu- ation. Topham and Bell, surely with M ...