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This paper analyzes London’s Summer Morning (1800), a poem published in the final year of the turbulent life of Mary Robinson (1758-1800), a prominent poet, novelist and actress. This poem seems frivolous in view of Robinson’s repertoire, ranging from typical Romantic poems of great sensibility, to politically charged comments on the French Revolution of 1789, to feminist tracts, novels and autobiography, among others. While criticism has profusely dealt with Mary Robinson’s notoriety for unorthodox morality and her rapport with the canonized, male masters of the Romantic Movement in England, this study is a feminist analysis of Robinson’s interest in the quotidian. Her choice of the detailed depiction of the daily activities of London merchants is a significant one. Robinson departs from Romantic melancholy and political dissent. She makes no transcendental flights of the imagination. Nor does she seek refuge in Nature. Instead, Robinson appears to be retreating from all past suffering into the shell of a domestic scene, recording the minute details which only a woman’s eye can see. Thus, this paper highlights Robinson’s London’s Summer Morning as evidence that Romantic poetry defies categorization. Though the domestic may furnish the exhausted female psyche with a sense of security in the familiar, the question arises as to how far Robinson succeeds in distancing herself from the depicted scene. One wonders how far London’s Summer Morning reflects her own struggle to “sell” herself as a writer, and not as a woman, in the male dominated literary “market”.
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