Michael Field Poetry Aestheticism And The Fin De Sieck
Of all the Victorian women poets who have received renewed critical attention since the turn of our own century, Michael Field have perhaps received the most: a conference devoted to their work, a collection of essays, a forthcoming online journal entitled The Michaelian, and now the first significant monograph dedicated to their poetry. Much of Michael Field’s popularity has stemmed from the fascinating circumstances of their collaboration; they were an aunt and niece who considered them to be ‘poets and lovers evermore’. Yet while Thain handles questions of gender and sexuality with nuance, she wants to draw attention instead to their innovative invocation of paradox in their poetics. Indeed, she writes, ‘To only see Michael Field’s writerly strategies as political devices for allowing the two women to write about taboo subjects is to risk missing the primary motivation for their poetry’. Thomas Sabo
Archive for January 10, 2012
Michael Field Poetry Aestheticism And The Fin De Sieck
Honesty in Your Mirror – Reflections and Poetry, Book Review
Honesty in Your Mirror – Reflections and Poetry, Book Review
Some of the greatest poetry perhaps comes in the simplest of forms. And when we read good poetry it captures our soul and takes hold of our emotion. Not all poetry works the same on every person, some folks feel for one poem and then dislike another, then a different person will become enamored by exactly the opposite. And yet, some poetry is so good that it connects will all, why do you suppose that is? It’s hard to say really.