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lawrenceevalyn's review
2.0
Mostly these poems are not very good! A lot of very vague and repetitive praises for virtue and denunciation of fashionable vice — a theme I’ll be curious to see develop in her works, given that she seems to spend much of her life quite interested in fashionable vice. Some interesting moments include a shepherd who dies in her first pastoral sequence, “written on the outside of a hermitage” and “letter to a friend on leaving town” for the contrast between vague and concrete. I feel like I can see why this volume didn’t sell well and wasn’t reprinted.
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