One of these poems presents Mary Magdalene
as the archetypal fallen woman, now ransomed and redeemed from guilt!
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia. “’Thou with Earth’s Music Answerest to the Sky’: Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
2
, No. 3, 1995, pp. 251-69.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Katharine Tynan
In this first volume KT
establishes three themes that recur throughout her later poetry collections: religion, Ireland, and nature. The four monologues here are spoken by historical or legendary heroines: Louise de la Vallière...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Katharine Tynan
KT
opens this volume (like her Ballads and Lyrics) with a prefatory poem that is modest, if not apologetic: A small monotonous song I sing, / My notes are faint and few.
Tynan, Katharine. Cuckoo Songs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894.
ix
The...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Christina Rossetti
Here she associates the figure of Mary Magdalene
with the bride of the Song of Songs, countering the dominant Victorian characterization of her as a prostitute by focusing on the loyalty, love, and instinct...