'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Poetry after 1822

O'Neill, Michael

doi:10.1080/09699082.2014.881064

'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Poetry after 1822

O'Neill, Michael

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Michael O'Neill

Abstract

This essay takes its title from a phrase used by Maria Jewsbury in a review article of 1831, which discusses Hemans's mid-career change towards a more expressive and imaginative poetry. The essay illustrates how traces of Shelley's writings pervade the poetry of the 1820s and afterwards, and, without slighting the intertextual relations that Hemans's work has with the poetry of Byron and Wordsworth, it argues for a fuller sense of the uses to which Hemans puts Shelley's poetry. It contends that Hemans has a productive awareness of Shelley's capacity for self-conflict, and that she is able to infuse Shelleyan notes into her work in ways that help us account for her poetry's rich mingling of moods and effects.

Citation

O'Neill, M. (2014). 'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Poetry after 1822. Women's Writing, 21(1), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2014.881064

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Jan 1, 2014
Publication Date	Apr 7, 2014
Deposit Date	Apr 29, 2014
Publicly Available Date	Sep 8, 2015
Journal	Women's Writing
Print ISSN	0969-9082
Electronic ISSN	1747-5848
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	21
Issue	1
Pages	74-90
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2014.881064

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Women's Writing on 07/04/2014, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09699082.2014.881064.