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The Female Sublime From Milton To Swinburne: Bearing Blindness
The Female Sublime From Milton To Swinburne Bearing Blindness Author:Catherine Maxwell This imaginative revisionist study of vision, gender, and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, and Swinburne, showing how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminization. Catherine Maxwell examines this concept of "bearing blindness" through a series of mythic, classical figures such ... more »as Philomela, Orpheus, and Sappho. This book offers a new interpretative framework for Victorian men's poetry, and provides detailed, extensive re-readings of many major poems.« less