Lyrics selected from the works of A. Mary F. Robinson by A. Mary F. Robinson

Lyrics selected from the works of A. Mary F. Robinson by A. Mary F. Robinson is a collection of lyric poetry from the late 19th century in the Victorian era. The poems dwell on love, nature, art, memory, and spiritual longing, often colored by Italian landscapes and classical allusion. Arranged in three movements—Music, Rosa Rosarum, and Stars—the book moves from dreamlike invocations of song and spring to intimate love lyrics and Tuscan rispetti, and finally to night-sky meditations, antiquity, history, and faith. Notable pieces evoke ascent to Parnassus, enchanted awakenings, Tuscan olives and cypresses, Venetian moonlight, Etruscan funerary art, and reflective scenes at Avignon; others weigh art against life, grief against remembrance, and science against spirit (Darwinism), before rising to hymnal address (Antiphon to the Holy Spirit) and a quiet closing assent (Epilogue). Across sonnets, sestinas, aubades, and songs, the voice fuses myth and landscape with a clear, musical diction, recurring images of spring and twilight, and a steady effort to transmute sorrow into song. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances), 1857-1944
Title Lyrics selected from the works of A. Mary F. Robinson
Original Publication New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1890.
Series Title The cameo series
Credits Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject English poetry -- 19th century
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EBook-No. 77682
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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