The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame

Index 279

Price, Richard, 85

Priestley, Joseph, 86

Prins, Yopie, 250

prosody, see meter

pseudonymity, 5, 8, 13–14, 15–22,

23, 31, 32, 34, 37, 39–41, 49,

70–1, 74, 113, 114, 156–62,

167–72, 173–4, 184, 190–2,

218, 245, 246, 247

see also avatars

Public Advertiser, 65, 118

puffing, 5, 29, 33, 37, 51, 57, 72,

75, 81, 84, 93, 98, 105, 107,

149, 150, 170, 187, 192, 248

Purkis, Samuel, 200

Pye, Henry James, 84–5, 177, 208,

251

Quarterly Review, 94

quatrains, 22, 43, 44, 48, 79, 120,

121, 137, 162, 163, 215,

222, 226, 231, 233

see also elegy; sonnet

Radcliffe, Ann, 115, 186, 205

Rambler’s Magazine, 118

Reid, W. Hamilton, 121–2

Reuben, see Greatheed, Bertie

reviews, 1, 11–12, 38–9, 45–6, 56,

71, 85–6, 87, 89, 91, 95, 97,

107, 116, 122, 205, 206,

228, 237, 240

Reynolds, Frederick, 63–4, 84, 96

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 1, 5, 6, 38,

39, 70, 75–7, 89, 107, 247

Richards, I. A., 201

Rinaldo, see Merry, Robert

Robespierre, Maximilien, 93, 153,

167

Robinson, Daniel, 2, 169, 185, 245,

249, 250, 255, 256

Robinson, Henry Crabb, 250

Robinson, Jeffrey C., 31, 238, 246,

247

Robinson, Maria Elizabeth

collects MR’s poems for The Wild

Wreath, 210

edits MR’s 1806 Poetical Works,

31, 91

and MR’s Memoirs, 10, 170, 187,

211

MR’s Oberon poems written for,

26–7

publishes Coleridge’s “A Stranger

Minstrel,” 227–8, 236

Robinson, Mary Darby

ambivalent political views of, 9,

14, 61, 65, 68–9, 96–110,

153–4

and baroque form, 77–81

blamed other women for her mis-

fortunes, 119–20, 182

career as actress, 2, 3–5, 23, 35,

49–50, 60, 70, 75–7

considers poetry more serious

than fiction, 114–15

as “English Sappho”/“British

Sappho,” 6, 14, 17, 38, 81,

105, 110, 111–52, 192, 203,

222, 236, 240

obituary of, 111–12

“Perdita” epithet applied to, 3–4,

33–4, 39, 50, 87, 117–19,

149–51

physical beauty of, 2, 5, 75–6

as “poetry editor” of the Morning

Post, 183–95, 253

political radicalism of, 9, 61, 90,

91, 104, 107, 110, 112, 124,

154–5, 157–68, 169, 190,

252

relationship with Tarleton, 5, 32,

51, 96, 126, 150, 158–9,

178

return to England, 32–4

subject of gossip, 34–6, 65–6,

92, 95–6, 112, 116–19, 150,

243–4

see also Bell, John; Coleridge,

Samuel Taylor; Fox, Charles

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