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29 Caroline Norton, The Dream and Other Poems (London: Henry Colburn,
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30 Norton, The Dream and Other Poems, 202.
31 Yopie Prins, "Personifying the Poetess: Caroline Norton, 'The Picture of
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3 2 Henry Thornton Wharton, Sappho, Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a
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33 Quotations from Michael Field's poetry are taken from Michael Field, Long
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eses.
34 Yopie Prins, "A Metaphorical Field: Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper,"
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3 5 My argument here draws on and adapts Page DuBois's stimulating discussion of
Sappho, using a Lacanian model of historicism, in "Sappho's Body in Pieces," in
Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation, ed. Lori
Hope Lefkovitz (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997),
19-33.
36 Joseph Bristow, Robert Browning (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 76-77.
37 J. Hillis Miller, The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth-Century Writers
(Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963), 108.
3 8 Mill, The Spirit of the Age, 6.
39 Herbert F. Tucker, "Wanted Dead or Alive: Browning's Historicism," Victorian
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40 John Ruskin, Modern Painters, IV, in The Works of John Ruskin, eds. E.T.
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VI, 449-
41 Alice Chandler, A Dream of Order: The Medieval Ideal in ¥lineteenth-Century
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42 [Walter Pater,] "Poems by William Morris," Westminster Review n.s. 34 (1868),
300.
43 Ruskin, "The Nature of Gothic," The Stones of Venice, The Works of John
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44 J.W. Mackail, The Life of William Morris, 2 vols. (New York: Longmans
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45 Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (London:
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46 Armstrong, Victorian Poetry, 236.
47 Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir, 2 vols. (London: Mac-
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48 Gerard Manley Hopkins, "To Richard Watson Dixon," 27 February 1879, in
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49 Hallam Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir, I, 196.
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