Mary Robinson, Ainsi va le monde, A Poem

Daniel Robinson (Widener University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1790

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poetry (any)

Resources

Mary Robinson's Ainsi va le Monde, a Poem is her first truly ambitious poem, her first book publication since her juvenile works over a decade earlier, and her first foray into the British debate over the French Revolution. After fleeing England in 1784 at the height of the “Perdita” scandal and her own celebrity, Robinson returned to London in 1788 and began writing poetry for publisher John Bell's newspapers under the pen-names “Laura” and then “Laura Maria.” Earning the attention of poet Robert Merry (1755–98), who famously wrote as “Della Crusca”, Robinson's “Laura” persona became playfully entangled in a fictional romance between Della Crusca and “Anna Matilda”, who was in reality playwright …

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Citation: Robinson, Daniel. "Ainsi va le monde, A Poem". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 February 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=28522, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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