Auteur: UK) Parker Sarah (University of Stirling

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be recl …

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be recl …

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. Parker looks at fin-de-siecle lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these roles and identifies their …