The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne
This volume examines the feminization of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus, and Sappho. This revisionist study also suggests an interpretative framework for Victorian men's poetry.
Print Book, English, 2001
Manchester University Press, Manchester, U.K., 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 279 pages
9780719057526, 0719057523
1100222555
Introduction; 1. The changes of Philomel: Orpheus, Sappho and the feminised male poet; 2. The unsculptured image: Milton and Shelley; 3. Tennyson's sublime: from Sappho to Satan; 4. Browning: when power comes full in play; 5. Beneath the woman's and the water's kiss: Swinburne's metamorphoses Bibliography