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Amidst the degeneracy of modern taste, if the studies of a Milton have lost their attraction, legitimate sonnets, enriched by varying pauses, and an elaborate recurrence of rhyme, still assert their superiority over those tasteless and inartificial productions, which assume the name, without evincing a single characteristic of distinguishing ...
SAPPHO AND PHAON IN A SERIES OF Legitimate Sonnets, WITH THOUGHTS ON POETICAL SUBJECTS, AND ANECDOTES OF THE GRECIAN POETESS. BY MARY ROBINSON, Author of Poems, &c. &c. &c. &c. LONDON: Printed by S. GOSNELL, For the AUTHOR, and Sold by HOOKHAM and CARPENTER, Bond Street. 1796. Sappho and Phaon -- Preface.
- Mary Robinson
- 1994
Mary Robinson’s sonnet sequence Sappho and Phaon: In a Series of Legitimate Sonnets (1796) is central to the sonnet revival of the 1790s and to the discourse of sensibility, which monopolized the period. Robinson designed her sequence to praise the Greek poetess’s sensibility and mind,
Phaon is false! be dim, ye orient Skies, And let black Erebus succeed your ray; Let clashing thunders roll, and lightnings play; Phaon is false! and hopeless Sappho dies! "Farewell! my Lesbian love, you might have said,"∗: Such sweet remembrance had some pity prov'd, "Or coldly thus, farewell, Oh! Lesbian maid∗: No task severe, for one so ...
Sappho and Phaon: in a series of legitimate sonnets, with thoughts on poetical subjects, and anecdotes of the Grecian poetess
Sappho and Phaon: In a Series of Legitimate Sonnets (1796) Mary Robinson. Scholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1995 - Biography & Autobiography - 125 pages. From inside the...
Sappho and Phaon in a Series of Legitimate Sonnets, with Thoughts on Poetical Subjects, and Anecdotes of the Grecian Poetess book By William D. Brewer, Daniel Robinson Book The Works of Mary Robinson, Part I Vol 1
