The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

88 The Poetry of Mary Robinson France must guide England toward its renewal. Her title suggests with- out saying it that “As Fra ...

Bell’s Laureates II 89 before France is even mentioned. Ainsi va le monde is a manifesto of taste as much as it is of poetic asp ...

90 The Poetry of Mary Robinson and Milton preeminently, but also working circuitously through “the sacred few, / Pope, Dryden, S ...

Bell’s Laureates II 91 and the developing French constitutions. Robinson’s Ainsi va le monde, then, is an important document in ...

92 The Poetry of Mary Robinson remarked, “The Platonics of Della Crusca and Laura Maria have been vilely slandered. Their extaci ...

Bell’s Laureates II 93 who in taste excel, / From tuneful ARNO down to Delphic BELL”— and their “Oracular puffs.” A phony poetic ...

94 The Poetry of Mary Robinson passion destroyed him: he “became perfectly rabid with the French revolution; associated himself ...

Bell’s Laureates II 95 allusion that it resulted from a miscarriage, an imputation now widely regarded as truth. A footnote iden ...

96 The Poetry of Mary Robinson sympathy in the hope that, regardless of politics, “every impartial eye has a tear for her suffer ...

Bell’s Laureates II 97 that Merry “would most willingly have promoted the destruction of the British government” if he could hav ...

98 The Poetry of Mary Robinson The praise of Robinson in the Tr u e B r iton and the sudden appear- ance of support for her in t ...

Bell’s Laureates II 99 Two years later, however, after the September Massacres in Paris, Laura Maria presents a very different p ...

100 The Poetry of Mary Robinson for their pretentious adoption of a popularized notion of Edward Bysshe’s Art of Poetry (1701), ...

Bell’s Laureates II 101 members of the First Coalition, Great Britain and the Dutch Republic. Laura Maria responds with a return ...

102 The Poetry of Mary Robinson in REGAL blood” (1: 83; 276; 192; 46–7). Meanwhile, Robinson recognizes the imminent fall of the ...

Bell’s Laureates II 103 squarely on the shoulders of the French Revolutionaries, her coun- try’s enemies. Robinson’s “Marie Anto ...

104 The Poetry of Mary Robinson proud disdain” and to take strength from “the glorious tide that fills each Ve in” (61, 63). But ...

Bell’s Laureates II 105 but in all of Europe (Mitchell 129–32). Robinson, moreover, was still attached to Tarleton, who shared t ...

106 The Poetry of Mary Robinson into 1794 but never materialized on stage or in print. In the summer of 1793, Robinson struck ba ...

Bell’s Laureates II 107 As a professional writer and, in some ways, an entertainer, Robinson may have been responding to what sh ...