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Article: A bounded Field: situating Victorian poetry in the literary landscape.(Victorian woman poet, Michael Field)
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- Victorian Poetry
- Article date:
- December 22, 2003
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thy province [is] not large, A bounded field, nor stretching far. --Tennyson, In Memoriam XLVI
The greatest development in the field of Victorian poetry studies over the past fifteen years has been the renewal of interest in women poets, both those who were already familiar but not yet sufficiently acknowledged, like Christina Rossetti, and those who had been all but forgotten by twentieth-century readers. Among the latter perhaps the most intriguing "newcomer" is Michael Field, the pen-name and poetic persona used by Katherine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper. Field had already begun to draw the attention of queer criticism in the 1980s, (1) but her life and ...