The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

Contents

Acknowledgments ix

A Note on Sources and Symbols xi

Introduction: The Wreath of Fame 1

1 Bell’s Laureates I: Robinson’s Avatars and

the Della Crusca Network 15

2 Bell’s Laureates II:... So Goes the World 63

3 The English Sappho and the Legitimate Sonnet 111

4 Stuart’s Laureates I: Poets and Politics Perplext 153

5 Stuart’s Laureates II: A Woman of Undoubted Genius 197

Notes 243

Works Cited 257

Index 269

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