The Circuit of Apollo

Laura L. Runge is Professor of English at the University of South Florida and the author of Teaching with the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. Jessica Cook teaches in the English department of the University of South Florida.

Cover PageSeries PageTitle PageCopyright PageContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTracing “The Circuit of Appollo”: Poetic Forms and Identities in Anne Finch’s Tributes to Women Poets“Those Stately Palaces”: Tribute and Estates in the Work of Anne Finch and Jane BarkerMartha Fowke’s Tributes to Mary, Lady Chudleigh, 1711 and 1726Eliza Haywood, Fame, and the Art of Self-Homage“Who Praises Women Does the Muses Praise”: Mary Barber, Laetitia Pilkington, and Constantia Grierson’s Poetic Tributes“Friendship, Better than a Muse, Inspires”: Anna Letitia Barbauld Claims the Sister Arts for Female FriendshipPainting in Bright Characters: Helen Maria Williams’s Poetic Tributes to Anna Seward, Elizabeth Montagu, and Marie-Jeanne RolandSapphic Circuitry: Anna Seward’s Equivocal Tribute to “Llangollen’s Vanished Pair”“I Delight in the Success of Your Literary Labours”: Friendship as Platform for ReinventionLyric Sociability: Object Lessons in Female Friendship in Amelia Opie’s Occasional VersesAfterword: Researching, Writing, and Teaching Women’s Tributes to WomenBibliographyContributorsIndex