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Of all the Victorian women poets who have received renewed critical attention since the turn of our own century, Michael Field have perhaps received the most: a conference devoted to their work, a collection of essays, a forthcoming online journal entitled The Michaelian, and now the first significant monograph dedicated to their poetry. Much of Michael Field’s popularity has stemmed from the fascinating circumstances of their collaboration; they were an aunt and niece who considered them to be ‘poets and lovers evermore’. Yet while Thain handles questions of gender and sexuality with nuance, she wants to draw attention instead to their innovative invocation of paradox in their poetics. Indeed, she writes, ‘To only see Michael Field’s writerly strategies as political devices for allowing the two women to write about taboo subjects is to risk missing the primary motivation for their poetry’. Thomas Sabo

For Thain, that motivation revolves around a poetics that attempts to fuse the synchronic and the diachronic, the transcendent moment and the narrative sequence. Her book concentrates on Michael Field’s lyrics, devoting only one chapter to their vast oeuvre of verse dramas and their diaries together and a chapter each to their most important collections of lyrics. Thain defends this approach with the assertion that the lyrics offer a clearer statement of their artistic manifesto and a more interesting approach to the paradox of their dual authorship. Subsequent scholars may argue with this point, though to judge by the scant attention so far to their drama, despite their recent popularity, no one to date has. Thain questions whether it is even appropriate to categorize Michael Field under the rubric of Victorian woman poets, arguing persuasively that partly because of their persona, the authors did not engage with the objectifying dynamics of poet and muse with which so many women poets had to contend. Thain also writes against those critics who have claimed Michael Field as simply a lesbian hero. In her chapter on Long Ago, their book of Sapphic translations, she argues that in this collection Michael Field identify with Sappho in order to participate in an amorphous sexual identity, one in which, avoiding contemporary sexology, they do not have to commit to categories of gender and sexuality. This refusal to commit allows them to focus on acute desire itself, rather than on the form it takes. Thomas Sabo Charms

Likewise, the male pseudonym affords the opportunity for occupying multiple positions rather than pointing towards Bradley and Cooper’s masculinity. Situating Michael Field in the context of aestheticism, Thain follows other critics in noting the importance of figures like Walter Pater and in finding concerns about the function of art in their work. For instance, in her examination of Wild Honey from Various Thyme, she reads the book by its cover, showing the significance of Charles Ricketts’s design for the book. Reading the outside as well as the inside, Thain sees the collection as at once, paradoxically, both commoditized and protected from commoditization; while the book object is to be purchased, the poetry inside is priceless. The term ‘poetry’ however, is equally if not more important to the thesis of the book.

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Sieck Wholesale Florist : Michael Field Poetry Aestheticism And The Fin De Sieck