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Merrin examines these poets' debts to and feminist departures from Renaissance and Romantic models, focusing on Sir Thomas Browne, George Herbert, and William Wordsworth. While her final argument that Moore and Bishop idiosyncratically combine a patri- and matrilinear heritage is well reasoned, her beginning chapters are too closely concerned with particulars of style and with Christian thematics (secularized in Bishop) to support it. Lack of evidence also weakens Merrin's claim for these poets' "maternal transformation and assimilation of congenial male sources." With conclusions too broad for its narrowly focused beginning, this is a useful but not fully coherent book.Editorials
Library Journal
Merrin examines these poets' debts to and feminist departures from Renaissance and Romantic models, focusing on Sir Thomas Browne, George Herbert, and William Wordsworth. While her final argument that Moore and Bishop idiosyncratically combine a patri- and matrilinear heritage is well reasoned, her beginning chapters are too closely concerned with particulars of style and with Christian thematics secularized in Bishop to support it. Lack of evidence also weakens Merrin's claim for these poets' ``maternal transformation and assimilation of congenial male sources.'' With conclusions too broad for its narrowly focused beginning, this is a useful but not fully coherent book.-- Cristanne Miller, Pomona Coll., Claremont, Cal.Booknews
Merrin (English, Ohio State U.) addresses the question of how a woman writer finds her own voice in a male-dominated culture and in response to what is still a male-dominated literary canon. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
December 31, 1990
Publisher
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1990.
Pages
200
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780813516233