What does it mean to 'bear blindness' and why should this be a
concern for male poets after Milton? This innovative study of
vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley,
Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet
achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation.
Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of
myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the
relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation
of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition.
The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the
feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural
history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which
include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring
sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the
male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him.
This imaginative revisionist study suggests a new interpretative
framework for Victorian men's poetry, while providing detailed and
extensive re-readings of many major poems The female sublime from
Milton to Swinburne will be required reading for anyone with a
serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian
poetry.
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