Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at <i>fin-de-siecle</i> and modernist lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these challenges and identifies three key strategies: the reconfiguring of the muse as a contemporary instead of a historical/mythological figure; the muse as a male figure; and an interchangeable poet/muse relationship, granting agency to both.
| ISBN: | 9781781440223 |
| Publication date: | 1st November 2013 |
| Author: | Parker, Sarah |
| Publisher: | Pickering & Chatto Publishers |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |