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2. Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (London: Routledge, 1993), 479.
3. Amy Levy, A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1889).
4. Michael Field, Works and Days, British Library, Add. MS. 46780 f.89. Michael Field, Sight and Song (London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1892).
5. Theodor W. Adorno, ‘On Lyric Poetry and Society’ in Notes to Literature, Volume One, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 46.