Keywords
Michael Field
Bliss Carman
Long Ago
Lyric poetry Safo
Michael Field
Bliss Carman
Long Ago
poesía lírica
Abstract
Sappho holds a special connection with the nineteenth century. Several studies have traced her multiple presences and gauged her immense transcendence among Romantic and Victorian poets –both European and American. However, there are a few striking omissions in those studies that call for our critical and contrastive attention, as is the case of Canadian poet Bliss Carman’s collection Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1903). In the present article, I aim to analyse this volume along with the similar precedent set by Michael Field in Long Ago (1889) by first contextualising both Sapphic collections within the dominant currents of nineteenth-century poetry and then revealing their close correlations around several apparently dichotomous categories.
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