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...
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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.
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The...
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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...
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Michèle Roberts
This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR
discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation...