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See also:AGNES See also:MARY F See also:DUCLAUX
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(1856– ), See also:English poet and critic, who first became known in See also:England under her See also:maiden name of See also:Mary F
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See also:Robinson, was See also:born at See also:Leamington on the 27th of See also:February 1856
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She was educated at University See also:College, See also:London, devoting herself chiefly to the study of See also:Greek literature
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Her first See also:volume of See also:poetry, A Handful of See also:Honeysuckle, was published in 1879
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Her next See also:work was a See also:translation from See also:Euripides, The Crowned See also:Hippolytus (1881)
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Monographs on Emily See also:Bronte (1883) and on See also:Marguerite of See also:Angouleme (1886) followed; and The New See also:Arcadia and other Poems (1884) and An See also:Italian See also:Garden (1886) contain some of her best verses
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Her poems attracted the See also:attention of the orientalist, See also: After Darmesteter's See also:death, she married in 1901 Emile See also:Duclaux, the See also:associate of See also:Pasteur, and director of the Pasteur See also:institute . He died in 1904 . She published Retrospect and other Poems in 1893, and in 1904 appeared The Return to Nature, Songs and Symbols . The qualities of Mary Robinson's work, its conciseness and purity of expression, were only gradually recognized . Her Collected Poems, Lyrical and Narrative were published in 1902 . |
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