The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

Traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. This book examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho.