The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

68 The Poetry of Mary Robinson London 241–3). At the time the poem appeared, Pitt’s bill had passed Commons and seemed likely to ...

Bell’s Laureates II 69 of poems in the Oracle in 1794, when the paper was bought by Peter Stuart. Robinson was for four years Be ...

70 The Poetry of Mary Robinson Bell’s Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry—and, most exciting, “finely engraved” “PORTR AITS ...

Bell’s Laureates II 71 Moreover, Robinson designed her Laura Maria avatar specifically for the interests of Bell’s paper, and fo ...

72 The Poetry of Mary Robinson will spur some “chosen swain” to “rise above the rhyming throng” of contemporary poets and restor ...

Bell’s Laureates II 73 her 1791 volume. In its original form, Robinson’s “Lines on Beauty” achieves its elegance well enough in ...

74 The Poetry of Mary Robinson colon at the end of the stanza above signals poignantly the logical consequence of beauty: Transp ...

Bell’s Laureates II 75 this Favourite of the Muses” (8 August 1789). A pattern emerges in the Oracle not just of puffing Laura M ...

76 The Poetry of Mary Robinson the perfection of art can seem to be natural. It has a particularly poi- gnant dimension, related ...

Bell’s Laureates II 77 of “one common idea and central form, which is the abstract of the various individual forms belonging to ...

78 The Poetry of Mary Robinson the World on 25 August 1787 and then in Poetry of the World. Della Crusca’s ode, as Judith Pascoe ...

Bell’s Laureates II 79 although the lines generally scan as iambic feet. The formal character- istics of the first two stanzas m ...

80 The Poetry of Mary Robinson poem. Poetry became, for a time, hyperlyrical thanks to the irregu- lar ode, and thus the subsequ ...

Bell’s Laureates II 81 that makes the original poem so striking. The revised version devel- ops the allegory, in addition to per ...

82 The Poetry of Mary Robinson even concludes with a quotation—“^ ‘If I e’er could Please – I please no more’ ” (1: 120; 106) —f ...

Bell’s Laureates II 83 1790 dedicated by Laura Maria to Robert Merry, not to Della Crusca. It followed within days Merry’s first ...

84 The Poetry of Mary Robinson These may have included holding the post of Poet Laureate. When Thomas Warton died in May, the Ge ...

Bell’s Laureates II 85 to lose” and “hurried to John Bell” to publish “at once” his poem on freedom and democracy (207). While i ...

86 The Poetry of Mary Robinson with mindless enthusiasm and foolhardy idealism (26), but this review came eighteen months after ...

Bell’s Laureates II 87 earlier, and her first foray into the British debate over the French Revolution. According to her Memoirs ...