The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

108 The Poetry of Mary Robinson it argues that the Revolution has not been worth the cost: “Heav’n forbid... That Liberty, immor ...

Bell’s Laureates II 109 includes a poem that would eventually appear in her novel Angelina, in 1796; it expresses a more modest ...

110 The Poetry of Mary Robinson (Werkmeister, Newspaper 143). Taylor was one of the new proprietors and may have had a hand in t ...

Chapter 3 The English Sappho and the Legitimate Sonnet The obituary that appeared in the Sun on 31 December 1800, five days afte ...

112 The Poetry of Mary Robinson poetry, as we have seen, delights in extravagant lyricism and virtuoso performance. She never lo ...

The English Sappho 113 claim to the title of “English Sappho.” While many of her poems first appeared in print pseudonymously, S ...

114 The Poetry of Mary Robinson that work, the only contemporary woman poet Robinson identifies in the main body of the pamphlet ...

The English Sappho 115 with the work of other women novelists of the decade, particularly Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, and Ma ...

116 The Poetry of Mary Robinson his manual on Conjugal Love, reprinted in England in French and English throughout the eighteent ...

The English Sappho 117 or a Play” (191–2).^5 And for Robinson, a lover of Pope’s poetry, the name Sappho also would have had the ...

118 The Poetry of Mary Robinson use of her limbs are gone; death stares her in the face” (16 August 1784). A month later, in the ...

The English Sappho 119 her legitimacy and vitality, Robinson also attempts to affiliate herself with moral and intellectual virt ...

120 The Poetry of Mary Robinson In 1794, she complained to Taylor that her literary aspirations have turned out to be “false pro ...

The English Sappho 121 decidedly male perspectives. The Renaissance tradition had firmly established sonnet writing as the domai ...

122 The Poetry of Mary Robinson that the skill required to compose the legitimate sonnet is “thrown away upon the many; for, as ...

The English Sappho 123 sometimes a bright gem sheds lustre on the page of poesy, it scarcely excites attention, owing to the dis ...

124 The Poetry of Mary Robinson Robinson and Seward see the legitimate sonnet as a promise of fame for the poet who is skillful ...

The English Sappho 125 countrywomen; who, unpatronized by courts, and unprotected by the powerful, persevere in the paths of lit ...

126 The Poetry of Mary Robinson So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” “This” is of course the sonnet, and Robinson u ...

The English Sappho 127 Petrarch, Robinson negotiates with such authors as Longinus, Ovid, Spenser, Edmund Waller, Milton, Ambros ...