from Part IV - ‘Be contemporaneous’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 October 2025
Though Michael Field most readily identified with the poetry of their male contemporaries, including Swinburne, reading their poetry volumes of 1889, 1893, 1908, 1912, and 1913 against the backdrop of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women poets reveals multiple affinities in form, genre, theme, and symbolism. Beginning with Sappho and ending with Alice Meynell, with whom Michael Field corresponded after 1906, this chapter notes the connections of Michael Field’s poetry with Romantic poets Mary Robinson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Felicia Hemans; with Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Augusta Webster, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Katharine Tynan, and Mathilde Blind; and with modernist poets H.D. and Amy Lowell. Reading Michael Field ‘among’ women poets reveals another layer of complexity in their poetic career, redresses a less-studied aspect of their work, and extends their central role in studies of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary history and poetics.
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