The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

48 The Poetry of Mary Robinson Laura as Laurel The promise of literary fame was a powerful charm for Robinson, in addition to th ...

Bell’s Laureates I 49 Robinson to write as Petrarch’s Laura, alive and subjectified, as a lyric agent rather than a lyrical obje ...

50 The Poetry of Mary Robinson of the World as an homage to Andrews and as an indication of her desire to join the Della Crusca ...

Bell’s Laureates I 51 That bids my throbbing Pulses beat; Soon shall that Vital Heat be o’er, Those throbbing Pulses BEAT no mor ...

52 The Poetry of Mary Robinson And e’en the gentle have believ’d, That ANNA, AND THAT I, WERE ONE.— Would it were so!—we then mi ...

Bell’s Laureates I 53 Absorbing these inf luences, Laura proposes that she and the Muse/ Della Crusca share a “sweet converse” n ...

54 The Poetry of Mary Robinson cautiously acknowledging the implicit warning in Laura’s renuncia- tion, urges her to avoid Italy ...

Bell’s Laureates I 55 same difficulty of rhyme (abababab) and the rhetorical structure of the octave and sestet. Merry has his L ...

56 The Poetry of Mary Robinson And sings adieu in Bacchanalian strains. FALSE Lover! TRUEST Poet! now farewell! While vilifying ...

Bell’s Laureates I 57 sensibility and that weeps at sexuality. This is a poetry about frisson for its own sake, while knowingly ...

58 The Poetry of Mary Robinson 31–34: a 6 bb 8 a 6 35–38: aabb 8 39–44: aa 10 bbcc 8 45–50: aabb 8 c 10 c 12 51–54: abab 8 55– 6 ...

Bell’s Laureates I 59 Mark, where amidst her ebon hair, The scaly Serpents mingling twine, While darting thro’ th’ infected air, ...

60 The Poetry of Mary Robinson ’TIS THERE my breast shall seek repose, And “drink Oblivion to its woes.” (1: 58; 61–70) The joke ...

Bell’s Laureates I 61 to Wordsworth’s disavowal of the “gaudiness and inane phraseol- ogy of many modern writers” in the adverti ...

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Chapter 2 Bell’s Laureates II:... So Goes the World Frederick Reynolds in his 1826 autobiography insists that Merry believed tha ...

64 The Poetry of Mary Robinson “Ode on the Restoration of His Majesty” appeared under his own name in several London newspapers. ...

Bell’s Laureates II 65 example, his poem on the humanitarian efforts of prison reformer John Howard, “Howard, the Phil- Anthrope ...

66 The Poetry of Mary Robinson remarked, “Mrs. Robinson improves in her poetical f lights—the sight of her princely Corydon give ...

Bell’s Laureates II 67 temporarily in its assaults, as all of the quarreling Whigs (Burke, Fox, and Sheridan) had a stake in the ...