Mary Robinson: Selected PoemsMary Robinson’s work has begun again to assume a central place in discussions of Romanticism. A writer of the 1790’s—a decade which saw the birth of Romanticism, revolution, and enormous popular engagement with political ideas—Robinson was acknowledged in her time as a leading poet. Her writing exhibits great variety: charm, theatricality, and emotional resonance are all characteristics Robinson displays. She was by turns a poet of sensibility, a poet of popular culture, a chronicler of the major events of the time, and a participant in some of its chief aesthetic innovations. This long-awaited collection is the first critical edition of her poems. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 12 |
Introduction | 19 |
Marie Antoinettes Lamentation in Her Prison of | 52 |
A Brief Chronology | 63 |
From Poems 1791 | 76 |
From Poems 1793 | 116 |
Temple | 135 |
Ode to Rapture | 138 |
Sonnet VIII | 161 |
Sonnet XX | 167 |
Sonnet XXII | 168 |
Sonnet XXV | 170 |
Lyrical Tales 1800 | 182 |
Poems that were incorporated into The Progress of Liberty | 298 |
From The Poetical Works 1806 | 323 |
Three letters of Mary Robinson | 365 |
Stanzas to a Friend Who Desired to Have My Portrait | 139 |
Sappho and Phaon 1796 | 144 |
To the Reader | 149 |
Account of Sappho | 151 |
Sappho and Phaon | 155 |
Sonnet Introductory | 157 |
Sonnet IV | 159 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridges poems in response | 374 |
Reviews of Robinsons poetry | 381 |
Publication histories of Robinsons poems | 392 |
Bibliography | 430 |
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