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- Title
"Appraise Love and Divide": Measuring Love in Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter.
- Authors
HARRINGTON, EMILY
- Abstract
A critique is presented of the Victorian sonnet sequence "Mother and Daughter" by Augusta Webster, focusing on the poem's representation of love. Erotic versus maternal love are discussed, as well as the transient nature of love and conceptions of love in the afterlife. Petrarchan poetry, English lyric poetry, and mortality in literature are also discussed.
- Subjects
MOTHER &; Daughter (Poem); WEBSTER, Augusta, 1837-1894; MATERNAL love; ROMANTIC love in literature; PETRARCHISM; ENGLISH sonnets; MORTALITY in literature; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2012, Vol 50, Issue 3, p259
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2012.0028