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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 191 4 200 x 127mm 262 pages, frontis
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MARY ROBINSON Poems 1791 Mary Robinson’s role as mistress of the young Prince of Wales lasted for about a year, after which she thought it impossible to resume her career on the stage. Instead she became a poet and novelist, falling for a time under the influence of Robert Merry and the heavily elaborate and fanciful DellaCruscan school of writing. Poems 1791, a Society publication listing in the front 600 aristocratic subscribers from the Prince of Wales downwards, provides an arresting insight into a literary fashion long overdue for reconsideration. In his introduction Jonathan Wordsworth shows how Robinson’s gifts of lyrical expression passed through this formative period to the simpler, more direct utterance of Sappho and Phaon (1796) and Lyrical Tales (1800). £30 $55 I’m odd, eccentric, fond of ease, |
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