Poems...

by President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice Former President of Ireland (1990-1997)

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266 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1775

Reviews

[Lawrence · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mostly these poems are not very good! A lot of very vague and repetitive praises for virtue and denunciation of fashionable vice — a theme I’ll be curious to see develop in her works, given that she seems to spend much of her life quite interested in fashionable vice. Some interesting moments include a shepherd who dies in her first pastoral sequence, “written on the outside of a hermitage” and “letter to a friend on leaving town” for the contrast between vague and concrete. I feel like I can see why this volume didn’t sell well and wasn’t reprinted.