Form and Modernity in Women's Poetry, 1895-1922

ISBN-13: 9781032348667 / Twarda / 2024 / 248 str.

Sarah Parker

Opis

This book shows that traditional forms played a vital role in shaping mature women poets’ responses to modernity, illuminating debates about form, tradition, and gender in twentieth-century poetry.

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter One: “Trysts with Time”: Alice Meynell, Metre and the Temporalities of Modern Poetry

Chapter Two: “Women are ever captive”: Michael Field and Twentieth-Century Verse Drama

Chapter Three: “The snatch of a song that is sung”: Dollie Radford’s Lyrics of Modernity

Chapter Four: “I am the pillars of the house”: Katharine Tynan’s Fortifying Ballads

Conclusion: A Line of Her Own

O autorze

Sarah Parker is Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University. She is the author of The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889–1930 (Routledge, 2013), Michael Field: Decadent Moderns (co-edited with Ana Parejo Vadillo, Ohio University Press, 2019), Michael Field, ‘For That Moment Only’, and Other Prose Works (co-edited with Alex Murray, MHRA, 2022) and Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres (co-edited with Elizabeth English and Jana Funke, Edinburgh University Press, 2023).  In 2023, she co-curated the Poets in Vogue exhibition at the National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London. She has published articles and chapters on poets including H.D., Iris Tree, Amy Levy, Olive Custance and Edna St. Vincent Millay.