1st Edition

Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922 A Line of Her Own

By Sarah Parker Copyright 2024
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

While W. B. Yeats’s influential account of the ‘Tragic Generation’ claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by attending to the twentieth-century poetry produced by women poets Alice Meynell, Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper), Dollie Radford, and Katharine Tynan. While primarily associated with... Read more

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

Biography

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.