The Female Sublime From Milton To Swinburne: Bearing Blindness

Introduction 1. The changes of Philomel: Orpheus, Sappho and the feminised male poet 2. The unsculptured image: Milton and Shelley 3. Tennyson's sublime: from Sappho to Satan 4. Browning: when power comes full in play 5. Beneath the woman's and the water's kiss: Swinburne's metamorphoses Bibliography