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Traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. This book examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho.

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Introduction
1. The changes of Philomel: Orpheus, Sappho and the feminised male poet
2. The unsculptured image: Milton and Shelley
3. Tennyson's sublime: from Sappho to Satan
4. Browning: when Power comes full in play
5. Beneath the woman's and the water's kiss: Swinburne's metamorphoses
Bibliography

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 4/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719080845, 978-0719080845
      ISBN10: 0719080843

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. This book examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. The changes of Philomel: Orpheus, Sappho and the feminised male poet
      2. The unsculptured image: Milton and Shelley
      3. Tennyson's sublime: from Sappho to Satan
      4. Browning: when Power comes full in play
      5. Beneath the woman's and the water's kiss: Swinburne's metamorphoses
      Bibliography

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