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"In 1884 The Spectator hailed 'a new voice, which is likely to be heard far and wide among the English-speaking peoples': Michael Field. But the reviewer had no idea that Michael Field was the joint pseudonym of Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, two poets, playwrights and diarists who found freedom behind a male mask. They were aunt and niece, but also lovers, sharing a 'bone-of-bone, flesh-of-flesh life' for more than half a century. The uncensored story of the extraordinary women who were Michael Field, based on their unpublished diaries, is told here for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
.. Michael Field was the joint pen name of ... Katherine Bailey and Edith Cooper ...
In the last twenty years, Michael Field has emerged as one of the most fascinating poets of the Victorian era. Through their collaborative partnership as “Michael Field,” Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper engaged in the aesthetic and decadent movements of the fin de siècle, while their poetry and verse drama articulate ideas associated with the New Woman and boldly express queer and lesbian desire. Michael Field: Decadent Moderns extends the focus on these key literary and cultural contexts by emphasizing their continuing significance within twentieth-century literary modernism. Through a series of interdisciplinary essays, this book addresses Michael Field’s energetic engagements wi...
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Marion Thain recounts the development of this fascinating poetic persona, created by two female writers.
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Selected poems of Michael Field
Michael Field, the poetic identity created by Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913), ceaselessly experimented with forms of identity and forms of literary expression. The Forms of Michael Field argues that their modes of self-creation are analogous to their poetic creations, and that exploring them in tandem is the best way to understand Michael Field’s cultural and literary importance. Michael Field deploys a different form in each volume of their lyric poetry: translations of Sappho, ekphrasis, songs, sonnets, and devotional verse. They also appropriate and revise the dramatic genres of verse tragedy and the masque. Each of these experiments in form enable Michael Field to differently address the cultural questions that beset late-Victorian women writers. Drawing on the insights of new lyric studies and new formalism, this book analyzes Michael Field’s continual quest for the aesthetic forms that best express their evolving ideas about identity and sexuality, gender and sacrifice, lyric voice and authority.