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- Title
Augusta Webster and the Lyric Muse: The Athenaeum and Webster's Poetics.
- Authors
Rigg, Patricia
- Abstract
An essay is presented which focuses on the literary career of writer Augusta Webster. The author explores how Webster used poetic composition within a theoretical context based on a a balance of technical ability, innovation, and self-discipline while working as a poetry critic for the periodical "Anthenaeum." Other topics covered include a series of poems known as "English Rispetti" in Webster's poetry collection "A Book of Rhyme," her approaches to rhyme and meter, and language.
- Subjects
WEBSTER, Augusta, 1837-1894; POETICS; BOOK of Rhyme, A (Book); CRITICS; LANGUAGE &; languages in literature; RHYME; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2004, Vol 42, Issue 2, p135
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2004.0042