Tit for Tat
Margaret Anne Doody, 21 December 1989
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology
edited by Roger Lonsdale.
Oxford, 555 pp., £20, September 1989,0 19 811769 8 Show More
edited by Roger Lonsdale.
Oxford, 555 pp., £20, September 1989,
“... is felt usually more in short lines than long, though some, such as Yearsley and Charlotte Smith, are successful in iambic pentameter blank verse. Poets from Rowe through Yearsley sometimes express an impatient sense of the limitations of language itself, ‘the human line/ Of alphabets (misused)’ (Yearsley), even while they express pleasure in ... ”