Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Mary Robinson | MR
published in the Morning PostTo the Poet Coleridge, a poem which demonstrates that she had read his Kubla Khan in manuscript. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Robinson | |
| death | Mary Robinson | An autopsy revealed six large gall-stones. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 13: 37 |
| Textual Production | Mary Robinson | According to her daughter she had developed an intense interest in an elderly, dignified male lunatic who became the subject of this poem. She then woke from sleep after consuming (on doctor's orders) an unusually... |
| Textual Features | Mary Robinson | Sailors carried a drowned man ashore and tried vainly to revive him. The body was roughly covered with stones at the foot of the cliffs. But not all the lower classes have sentiment: the victim... |
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | Coleridge
thought the poem anticlimactic, but exclaimed, but the Metre—ay! that Woman has an Ear! Curran, Stuart. “Mary Robinson and the New Lyric”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 9-22. 16 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Robinson | Her postscript to the volume invokes Wordsworth
as model (as, indeed, her title invokes the joint work of Wordsworth and Coleridge
). Her titles (like The Shepherd's Dog and The Poor, Singing Dame) copy... |
| Textual Features | Mary Robinson | It is set in France, and voices anti-Catholic sentiments. The poetry quoted in it (by poets of the Graveyard School like Edward Young
, Thomas Gray
, and Edward Young
, as well as... |
| Textual Features | Mary Robinson | As well as MR
's account of her life, designed to mark her out as a romantic heroine and victim (and not immune from exaggeration and unreliability), this publication includes much of her other literary... |
| Literary responses | Frances Arabella Rowden | Rowden's poem was reviewed by the Critical (3rd series 20 (May 1810): 112). Mary Russell Mitford
read the first canto with high appreciation and admiration that increase[d] with every perusal. She expected it to rank... |
| Textual Production | Berta Ruck | BR
published Ancestral Voices, last in her series of autobiographical novels set in Wales, and the last publication of her long writing career. The title comes from Coleridge
's Kubla Khan, whose... |
| Textual Features | Sappho | They treat a range of topics, from mythical and religious subjects, through satiric commentary and praise of beauty, to expressions of erotic desire. The cult of Aphrodite allowed poems to be simultaneously religious and erotic... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth
, William Hazlitt
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Holcroft
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Maria Edgeworth
. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 27-8 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 40-1 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. 11 |
| Instructor | Mary Shelley | MS
and her half-sister Fanny are reputed to have listened as Coleridge read aloud The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Godwin took all the children to Coleridge
's lectures at the Royal Institution |
| Literary responses | Dora Sigerson | The reviewer drew parallels between DS
's naïveté and that of Coleridge
. Sigerson, Dora, and Katharine Tynan. The Sad Years. Constable. end-pages |
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