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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Work title:
"The Progress of Liberty [from The Poetical Works of the late Mrs Mary Robinson: including many pieces never before published. In Three Volumes]"
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Literary Period:
"French Revolution"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
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"Optics"
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Date: 1806
"Thy pure flame / Would light the sense opake, and warm the spring / Of boundless ecstacy; while nature's laws / So violated, plead, immortal-tongu'd, / For her dark-fated children; lead them forth / From bondage infamous!"
preview | full record— Robinson [Née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1758-1800)