Once celebrated as 'the English Sappho,' Mary Robinson was a major figure in British Romanticism. This volume offers comprehensive study of Robinson's achievement as a poet, a professional writer, a formative influence on the Romantic movement, and a participant in the literary, political, and social scene of the late 1700s.

Autorentext
DANIEL ROBINSON Associate Professor of English at Widener University, USA. He is the editor of The Works of Mary Robinson.

Inhalt
Introduction: Wreath of Fame 1. Formal Assignations - Robinson, from Merry to Coleridge 2. So Goes the World: Robinson's Early Political Poetry 3. The Petrarchan Sappho/The Sapphic Petrarch 4. The Trouble with Tabitha Bramble 5. The Prosody of Dreams: Robinson and Coleridge Redux 6. Assembling The Progress of Liberty and Robinson's Corpus