Robinson, A. Mary F. Songs, Ballads, and a Garden Play. T. Fisher Unwin, 1888.
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Angela Leighton
Standard Name: Leighton, Angela
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| Textual Features | A. Mary F. Robinson | The contents are divided thematically as Songs of the Inner Life, Spring Songs, and Romantic Ballads. One of those poems, the lyric Melancholia, was inspired an Albrecht Dürer
engraving. |
| Textual Features | L. S. Bevington | Poems, Lyrics, and Sonnets also muses on the incompatibility of feminism and religion. LSB
likens marriage to slavery (that most common of first-wave feminist motifs) in Bees in Clover. She uses poetic repetition and... |
| Textual Features | Dora Greenwell | The volume opens with Christina, which relates the sad history of a fallen woman. Choosing this woman's voice for first-person narration (though she is not the person named in the poem's title) is... |
| Textual Features | Emily Brontë | The range of her poems shows the influence of both Byron
and Wordsworth
. There are monologues evincing deep suffering and social alienation and lyrics evoking the power of nature. As Angela Leighton
argues (following... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In over 1,200 lines divided into numbered books, the abstract and didactic poem of the title seeks to sketch, in the language of the preface, the sublime circuit of intellect in poetry and philosophy. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press, 1973, 6 vols. 1: 59 |
| Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | MEC
's poems have been likened, for their mysterious tone, to those of William Blake
. Among the eerie poems included in Fancy's Following is The Witch. Here the speaker, Geraldine (a sorceress), is... |
| Textual Features | Augusta Webster | A Castaway is AW
's single best-known work and has often been compared to Dante Gabriel Rossetti
's Jenny. AW
's volume appeared in February, while Rossetti's Poems appeared later (it was reviewed by... |
| Textual Production | L. S. Bevington | Until recently, comment on LSB
has dealt exclusively with her poetry. About a decade after her death Alfred H. Miles
remembered her as the poetess of evolutionary science. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols. 9: 229 |
| Textual Production | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Although deteriorating in health, RMW
contributed reviews and poetry to the Athenæum. Angela Leighton
and Margaret Reynolds
state that she was poetry editor from 1904 to 1911, but this is not confirmed by more... |
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