‘Gay Strangers’: Reflections on Decadence and the Decadent Poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson

This paper reflects on what it means to write decadent poetry with a Latin complexion. It begins by revisiting some of the debates surrounding the return of Latin to fin-de-siècle writing to highlight that writers like Alice Meynell and A. Mary F. Robinson (women of style—as opposed to Walter Pater’...

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Main Author: Ana Parejo Vadillo
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Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2013-09-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/856
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description This paper reflects on what it means to write decadent poetry with a Latin complexion. It begins by revisiting some of the debates surrounding the return of Latin to fin-de-siècle writing to highlight that writers like Alice Meynell and A. Mary F. Robinson (women of style—as opposed to Walter Pater’s man of style) were part of these debates. It then moves on to consider the possibility of another fin-de-siècle poetic paradigm resulting from this return to Latin. It examines the idea of composition as a form of composure, and examines in this context the decadent poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson. It offers a reading of the philological poetics of her 1893 volume of poems, Retrospect, as a reflection of a poet in exile concerned with the question of how language composes feeling.
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‘Gay Strangers’: Reflections on Decadence and the Decadent Poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Robinson (A. Mary)
Decadent Poetry
exile in Paris
Meynell (Alice)
Pater (Walter)
Latinate English
title ‘Gay Strangers’: Reflections on Decadence and the Decadent Poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson
title_full ‘Gay Strangers’: Reflections on Decadence and the Decadent Poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson
title_fullStr ‘Gay Strangers’: Reflections on Decadence and the Decadent Poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson
title_full_unstemmed ‘Gay Strangers’: Reflections on Decadence and the Decadent Poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson
title_short ‘Gay Strangers’: Reflections on Decadence and the Decadent Poetics of A. Mary F. Robinson
title_sort gay strangers reflections on decadence and the decadent poetics of a mary f robinson
topic Robinson (A. Mary)
Decadent Poetry
exile in Paris
Meynell (Alice)
Pater (Walter)
Latinate English
url https://journals.openedition.org/cve/856
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