The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

148 The Poetry of Mary Robinson a recrimination against Phaon’s heartlessness coupled with the self- pitying hope that, in his g ...

The English Sappho 149 contends, is bound up with “gaudy buds and wounding thorns”; that is, factitious pleasure and inevitable ...

150 The Poetry of Mary Robinson in the allegory of gossip: the Prince had gotten legally married to Caroline of Brunswick just t ...

The English Sappho 151 West Wind” as a homostrophic ode consisting of five terza rima sonnets—and thus a nonce form—carries a we ...

152 The Poetry of Mary Robinson to the Aspin Tree” (85–6), are in unique fixed lyric forms, Robinson never again associates Sapp ...

Chapter 4 Stuart’s Laureates I: Poets and Politics Perplext The tension between love and reason explored in Sappho and Phaon had ...

154 The Poetry of Mary Robinson rationality by the phantoms of vanity and caprice” (7: 27). Martha is, therefore, another counte ...

Stuart’s Laureates I 155 in her political views, Robinson saw an opportunity to ally herself with a new network. This new networ ...

156 The Poetry of Mary Robinson as 350 copies per day when he purchased it; four years later, Stuart was selling “upwards of 2,0 ...

Stuart’s Laureates I 157 Certainly, Robinson’s references in the Letter point to a wide knowl- edge of historical women. The pse ...

158 The Poetry of Mary Robinson reigns – and worlds shall be no more!” (13–4). The second sonnet, “To Philanthropy,” is similarl ...

Stuart’s Laureates I 159 it would devastate the local economy—as he had done in 1791 and 1792 (Oracle 8 March 1794). Moreover, T ...

160 The Poetry of Mary Robinson not merely London and Paris, but the separate worlds of the rich and the poor coexisting in the ...

Stuart’s Laureates I 161 who have partisan tastes for particular news providers, were liable to engage only those ideas with whi ...

162 The Poetry of Mary Robinson published in the Oracle. The negative play given this earlier poem in the Oracle may account for ...

Stuart’s Laureates I 163 merge categories and complicate the terms, showing how they over- lap, interrelate, and imperfectly rep ...

164 The Poetry of Mary Robinson novel Angelina, the blank verse tragedy The Sicilian Lover, the son- net sequence Sappho and Pha ...

Stuart’s Laureates I 165 and oppression. She goes on to affirm that Nature herself recoils at the British enterprise, a wickedne ...

166 The Poetry of Mary Robinson Girl” show Robinson experimenting with the relation of narrative within fixed and often peculiar ...

Stuart’s Laureates I 167 demanded that she forego the use of pseudonyms and claim a stance of her own, particularly at this time ...