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Robinson was born in Bristol, England to Nicholas Darby, a naval captain, and his wife Hester (née Vanacott) who had married at Donyatt, Somerset, in 1749, and was baptised 'Polle(y)' ("Spelt 'Polle' in the official register and 'Polly' in the Bishop's Transcript") at St Augustine's Church, Bristol, 19 July 1758, [3] the entry noting that she was born on 27 November 1756. [4]
Anna Seward and Mary Robinson, on the other hand, championed the Petrarchan sonnet as the only 'legitimate' form. [11] In the preface to her sequence Sappho and Phaon: in a series of legitimate sonnets (1796), Robinson denounced the undisciplined effusions filling the literary reviews as "non-descript ephemera from the heated brains of self ...
Sappho and Phaon was the second of David's major paintings to take a mythological love story as its subject, after The Loves of Paris and Helen from 1788. [2] It is visually very similar to that earlier work – the two paintings are sufficiently similar that a preparatory drawing for Sappho and Phaon was traditionally identified as being a ...
This led to Mary Robinson's fighting preface to her sequence Sappho and Phaon, in which she asserted the legitimacy of the Petrarchan form as used by Milton over "the non-descript ephemera from the heated brains of self-important poetasters" that pass as sonnets in the literary reviews of her day. [59]
[4]: 13 Anna Seward, a major female sonneteer to follow Smith, criticized Smith for deviating from the prescribed forms. [4]: 13 Similarly, when Mary Robinson published her own sonnet sequence in 1796, she emphasized her own adherence to formal rules in the title Sappho and Phaon: In a Series of Legitimate Sonnets. [4]: 13
Poet Laureate Mikhayla Robinson Smith reads an original poem to the Athens-Clarke County Board of Commissioners on April 16. It certainly strains credulity to suggest any government meeting could ...
Sappho and Phaon.A Jacques-Louis David painting from the Moika Palace in Saint Petersburg. Lyly dramatised the ancient Greek legend of the romance of Sappho and Phaon, drawing on Ovid's "Letter from Sappho to Phaon", from the Heroides, and Aelian's Varia Historia (translated into English by Abraham Fleming in 1576).
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