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Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and comparisons with Charlotte Smith, make her a serious figure for scholarly research.
Table of Contents
General Introduction -- Chronology -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Poems in Robinson’s Novels -- Index of First Lines -- References and Further Reading -- Abbreviations -- ‘A Pastoral Ballad’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Another’, Poems (1775) -- ‘A Pastoral Elegy’, Poems (1775) -- ‘An Ode to Wisdom’, Poems (1775) -- ‘An Ode to Charity’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Th e Linnet’s Petition’, Poems (1775) -- ‘A Character’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Written on the Outside of an Hermitage’, Poems (1775) -- ‘A Character’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Ode to Virtue’, Poems (1775) -- ‘An Epistle to a Friend’, Poems (1775) -- ‘On the Death of a Friend’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Th e Wish’, Poems (1775) -- ‘On a Friend’, Poems (1775) -- ‘On the Death of Lord George Lyttelton’, Poems (1775) -- ‘A Character’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Ode to Spring’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Letter to a Friend on Leaving Town’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Written Extempore on the Picture of a Friend’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Hymn to Virtue’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Song’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Song’, Poems (1775) -- ‘On the Birth-Day of a Lady’, Poems (1775) -- ‘To Aurelia on her Going Abroad’, Poems (1775) -- ‘To Love: Written Extempore’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Th e Complaint’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Th oughts on Retirement’, Poems (1775) -- ‘An Ode to Contentment’, Poems (1775) -- ‘A Song’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Th e Vision’, Poems (1775) -- ‘To Matilda’, Poems (1775) -- ‘Written on Richmond Hill’, Town and Country Magazine ( January 1776) -- ‘Captivity, a Poem’, Captivity, a Poem and Celadon and Lydia, a Tale (1777) -- ‘Celadon and Lydia, a Tale’, Captivity, a Poem and Celadon and Lydia, a Tale (1777) -- ‘Lines, Dedicated to the Memory of a Much-Lamented Young Gentleman’, World (24 October 1788) -- ‘To Him Who Will Understand It’, World (31 October 1788) -- ‘Th e Muse’, World (13 November 1788) -- ‘To Leonardo’, World (6 December 1788) -- ‘To Leonardo’, World (28 February 1789) -- ‘To Anna Matilda’, World (6 March 1789) -- [‘Life’], World (15 June 1789) -- ‘Lines on Beauty’, Oracle (24 June 1789) -- ‘To Sir Joshua Reynolds’, Oracle (9 July 1789) -- ‘To the Memory of Werter’, World (15 July 1789) -- ‘Elegy on the Death of Lady Middleton’, Oracle (18 July 1789) -- ‘Sonnet’, Oracle (29 July 1789) -- ‘Stanzas’, Oracle (13 August 1789) -- ‘Ode to Eloquence’, Oracle (5 September 1789) -- ‘Lines Inscribed to the Memory of David Garrick, Esq.’, Oracle (26 September 1789) -- ‘Sonnet’, Oracle (3 October 1789) -- ‘Sonnet. Th e Mariner’, Oracle (7 November 1789) -- ‘Sonnet, to the Memory of Miss Maria Linley’, Oracle (26 November 1789) -- ‘Ode to Refl ection’, Oracle (7 December 1789) -- ‘To the Nightingale’, Oracle (11 December 1789) -- ‘Ode to Melancholy’, Oracle (17 December 1789) -- ‘To Meditation’, Oracle (17 December 1789) -- ‘To a Friend’, Town and Country Magazine (May 1790) -- ‘To the Queen of the Fairies’, Oracle (3 June 1790) -- Ainsi va le Monde, A Poem (1790) -- ‘On a Faded Bouquet’, Town and Country Magazine ( July 1790) -- ‘Ode to Envy’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Ode to Health’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Ode to Vanity’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Ode to Despair’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Second Ode to the Nightingale’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Ode on Adversity’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Ode to Beauty’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Ode to the Moon’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Ode to Della Crusca’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Ode to Valour’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Elegy to the Memory of Richard Boyle, Esq. who died at Bristol, October, 1788’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Monody to the Memory of Chatterton’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Cupid Sleeping’, Poems (1791) -- ‘To Simplicity’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Absence’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Lines Inscribed to P. de Loutherbourg, Esq. R.A.’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Lines on Hearing it Declared that no Women were so Handsome as the English’, Poems (1791) -- ‘To Rinaldo’, Poems (1791) -- ‘To the Muse of Poetry’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Th e Adieu to Love’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Stanzas to Flora’, Poems (1791) -- ‘To Cesario’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Echo to Him Who Complains’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Lines Written on the Sea-Coast’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Stanzas Written under an Oak in Windsor Forest, bearing the Following Inscription’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Stanzas to the Rose’, Poems (1791) -- ‘To the Myrtle’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Stanzas Inscribed to Lady William Russell’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Morning’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Stanzas to Love’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Lines Written by the Side of a River’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Th e Bee and the Butterfl y: A Fable’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Stanzas to Time’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Canzonet’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Th e Reply to Time’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Stanzas’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Pastoral Stanzas’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Pastoral Stanzas’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Th e Origin of Cupid. A Fable’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sonnet. Inscribed to Her Grace the Dutchess of Devonshire’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sonnet to Amicus’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sonnet to Evening’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sonnet to Ingratitude’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sonnet’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sonnet. To My Beloved Daughter’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sonnet’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sonnet. Th e Peasant’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sonnet’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sonnet. Th e Tear’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sonnet. Th e Snow-Drop’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Petrarch to Laura’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Sir Raymond of the Castle. A Tale’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Lewin and Gynneth. A Tale’, Poems (1791) -- ‘Laura Maria to Arno’, Oracle (21 June 1791) -- ‘Sonnet. To Amicus’, Oracle (3 September 1791) -- ‘Impromptu on Mr. Merry’s Marriage with Miss Brunton’, Oracle (29 October 1791) -- ‘Th e Moralist’, Oracle (23 November 1791) -- ‘To ——’, Oracle (13 December 1791) -- ‘Invocation’, Oracle (15 March 1792) -- ‘Oberon to Maria on Seeing her Gather some Pensees’, Oracle (27 March 1792) -- ‘Sonnet. To Independence’, Oracle (13 April 1792) -- Monody to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Late President of the -- Academy (1792) -- ‘Julia to Carlos’, Oracle (9 July 1792) -- ‘Stanzas, Written between Dover and Calais, July 24th, 1792’, Oracle (2 August 1792) -- ‘Ode to Humanity’, Oracle (20 September 1792) -- ‘Sonnet’, Oracle (25 September 1792). -- ‘Sonnet, to the Prince of Wales’, Oracle (20 October 1792). -- ‘Stanzas Written aft er Successive and Melancholy Dreams’, Oracle (30 November 1792) -- ‘Laura, to Arno’, Oracle (5 December 1792) -- ‘To Mrs. Hanway, on the Death of her Lovely and Accomplished Daughter’, Oracle (26 December 1792). -- Ode to the Harp of the Late Accomplished and Amiable Louisa Hanway (1793) -- ‘A Fragment, Supposed to be Written near the Temple, on the Night before the Murder of Louis the Sixteenth’, Oracle (27 February 1793) -- ‘Marie Antoinette’s Lamentation, in her Prison of the Temple’, Oracle (8 March 1793) -- ‘Julia to —— ’, Oracle (3 April 1793) -- ‘To Him Who Lamented Seeing a Beautiful Woman Weep; though She Declared, that Tears Relieved her Inquietude’, European Magazine 23 (April 1793) -- ‘Sonnet, Written on the Sea-Shore’, European Magazine 23 ( June 1793) -- Modern Manners, a Poem. In Two Cantos (1793) -- ‘Stanzas Supposed to be Written near a Tree, over the Grave of Colonel Bosville’, Oracle (7 September 1793) -- ‘Sonnet to Mrs. Charlotte Smith, on Hearing that her Son was Wounded at the Siege of Dunkirk’, Oracle (17 September 1793) -- ‘Refl ections, which with a Power so Pleasing, at Least Cheer the Condition of Life they are Unable to Change’, Oracle (21 September 1793) -- ‘Sonnet to a Sigh’, Oracle (25 September 1793) -- ‘Sonnet to a Tear’, Oracle (27 September 1793) -- ‘Sonnet to a Rose’, Oracle (1 October 1793) -- ‘Sonnet to Lesbia’, Oracle (5 October 1793) -- ‘Julia to Arno’, Oracle (19 October 1793) -- ‘Lines to Maria, Written on her Birth-Day, Oct. 18, 1793’, Oracle -- October 1793) -- ‘Julia to Arno’, Oracle (28 October 1793) -- ‘Sonnet, in the Manner of Metastasio’, Oracle (12 November 1793) -- ‘Stanzas to Fate’, Oracle (19 November 1793) -- ‘Myra’, European Magazine (November 1793) -- ‘Sight’, Sight, Th e Cavern of Woe, and Solitude (1793) -- ‘Th e Cavern of Woe’, Sight, Th e Cavern of Woe, and Solitude (1793) -- ‘Solitude’, Sight, Th e Cavern of Woe, and Solitude (1793) -- ‘Ode to Rapture’, Oracle (30 November 1793) -- ‘Ode to Genius’, Oracle (7 December 1793) -- ‘Stanzas’, Oracle (12 December 1793) -- Monody to the Memory of the Late Queen of France (1793) -- ‘To Zephyrus. Written in August, 1793’, Oracle (7 January 1794) -- ‘Ode for the New Year’, Morning Post (7 January 1794) -- ‘Elegiac Ode to the Memory of my Lamented Father, who Died in the Service of the Empress of Russia, December 5, 1786’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘To the Memory of my Beloved Brother, who Died Suddenly at Leghorn, in Tuscany, in the 38th Year of his Age, December 7, 1790’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Th e Maniac’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘To Julius’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Th e Recantation. To Love’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Anacreontic. To Cupid’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Anselmo, the Hermit of the Alps’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Donald and Mary’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Th e Weeping Willow’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Ode to Night’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Ode to Hope’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Bosworth Field’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Stanzas Written on the Fourteenth of February, 1792, to my Valentine’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Stanzas Inscribed to a Friend, when Confi ned by Severe Indisposition, in March, 1793’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘To Lisardo, on his Recovering from a Long Indisposition, in May, 1793’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Th e Adieu to Fancy. Inscribed to a Friend’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Stanzas to the Author of a Celebrated Tragedy’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Stanzas, Presented with a Gold Chain Ring’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘To the Same’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘To the Same’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘To the Same’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Song, Inscribed to Maria, my Beloved Daughter’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Th e Snake and the Linnet. A Fable’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Stanzas to the Memory of a Young Lady’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Sonnet to Hope’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Sonnet, Written at Sea, in the Month of September, 1792’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Sonnet. To Amicus’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Sonnet to Memory’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Sonnet to Fame’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Sonnet to Time’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Evening Meditations on St. Anne’s Hill: Inscribed to the Right Honourable Charles James Fox’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Stanzas to a Friend, who Desired to Have my Portrait’, Poems ([1794]) -- ‘Ode for the 18th of January, 1794’, Oracle (18 January 1794) -- ‘Lines Written on Monday, January 27, 1794’, Oracle (28 January 1794) -- ‘Stanzas Written at the Shrine of Bertha’, Th e Shrine of Bertha (1794) -- [‘Th e Shepherd Boy, on Yonder Mountain’s Crest’], Th e Shrine of Bertha (1794) -- [‘Farewell! – Dear Haunts of Pleasing Woes’], Th e Shrine of Bertha (1794) -- [‘Where Tow’ring Cliff s, in Awful Splendour Rise’], Th e Shrine of Bertha (1794) -- [‘Oh Peace! Th ou Nymph of Modest Mien!’], Th e Shrine of Bertha (1794) -- ‘Stanzas’, Oracle and Public Advertiser (9 June 1794) -- ‘Epilogue, by Mrs. M. Robinson. Supposed to have been Spoken aft er the Play of Fontainville Forest’, Oracle and Public Advertiser (1 July 1794) -- ‘Ode to my Beloved Daughter, (Written on her Birth-Day, Oct.18, 1794)’, Gentleman’s Magazine (November 1794) -- ‘Lines to the Rev. J. Whitehouse, (Author of Odes Moral and Descriptive)’, Gentleman’s Magazine (November 1794) -- ‘To Liberty’, Morning Post and Fashionable World (10 January 1795) -- ‘St. James’s Street, on the Eighteenth of January, 1795’, Morning Post, and Fashionable World (21 January 1795) -- ‘To Philanthropy’, Morning Post and Fashionable World (23 January 1795) -- ‘January, 1795’, Morning Post and Fashionable World (29 January 1795) -- ‘To the Author of Th e Secret Tribunal’, Oracle and Public Advertiser (20 October 1795) -- ‘Th e Storm’, Morning Post and Fashionable Advertiser (3 February 1796) -- ‘Sonnet to Sympathy’, Th e Shrine of Bertha, 2nd edn (1796) -- Sappho and Phaon in a Series of Legitimate Sonnets (1796) -- ‘Stanzas by Mrs. Robinson’, Gentleman’s Magazine ( January 1797) -- ‘Tabitha Bramble Visits the Metropolis by Command of her Departed Brother’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (8 December 1797) -- ‘A Simple Tale’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (13 December 1797) -- ‘Tabitha Bramble, to her Cousins in Scotland’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (25 December 1797) -- [‘Your Gloves I Send’], Morning Post and Gazetteer (29 December 1797) -- ‘Ode Fourth. For New Year’s Day’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (1 January 1798) -- ‘A New Song, to an Old Tune’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (12 January 1798) -- ‘Th e Sorrows of Memory’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (26 January 1798) -- ‘Sonnet’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (3 February 1798) -- ‘Ode Fift h’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (14 February 1798) -- ‘A New Song’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (19 February 1798) -- ‘Poetical Pictures. No. I. Th e Birth-day of Liberty’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (7 April 1798) -- ‘Poetical Pictures. No. II. Th e Progress of Liberty’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (14 April 1798) -- ‘Original Sketches from Nature. Twilight’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (20 April 1798) -- ‘Poetical Pictures. No. III. Th e Horrors of Anarchy’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (25 April 1798) -- ‘Poetical Pictures. No. IV. Th e Vestal’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (5 May 1798) -- ‘Poetical Pictures. No. V. Th e Monk’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (12 May 1798) -- ‘Poetical Pictures (In France and Italy). No. VI. Th e Dungeon’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (18 May 1798) -- ‘Th e African’, Morning Post and Gazetteer (2 August 1798) -- Editorial Notes -- Textual Notes.
