Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-siecle and modernist lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these challenges and identifies three key strategies: the reconfiguring of the muse as a contemporary instead of a historical/mythological figure; the muse as a male figure; and an interchangeable poet/muse relationship, granting agency to both.
- ISBN10 1299962920
- ISBN13 9781299962927
- Publish Date 1 January 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pickering & Chatto Publishers
- Language English