This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR
discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary Ann Browne
One of these poems presents Mary Magdalene
as the archetypal fallen woman, now ransomed and redeemed from guilt!
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia. “’Thou with Earth’s Music Answerest to the Sky’: Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
2
, No. 3, 1995, pp. 251-69.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Katharine Tynan
In this first volume KT
establishes three themes that recur throughout her later poetry collections: religion, Ireland, and nature. The four monologues here are spoken by historical or legendary heroines: Louise de la Vallière...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Katharine Tynan
KT
opens this volume (like her Ballads and Lyrics) with a prefatory poem that is modest, if not apologetic: A small monotonous song I sing, / My notes are faint and few.
Tynan, Katharine. Cuckoo Songs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894.