The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

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homostrophic nonce form and thus is formally different from “Kubla

Khan”; I call it the “Maniac” stanza: a 4 a 4 b 5 c 4 c 4 b 6. For more on this

and other poems by Coleridge and Robinson that share an interest

in dreams, see my “Coleridge, Mary Robinson, and the Prosody of

Dreams.”

12. The Oxford English Dictionary does cite an instance of the word
    orgasm being used to describe sexual climax and seminal ejaculation
    as early as 1754.


13. It appears in Walsingham as a poem called “Penelope’s Epitaph,”
    appearing on the tombstone of the narrator- protagonist’s mother’s
    grave.

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