Talk:Mary Robinson (poet)

message: she inspired s t coleridge
Incorrect.  She plagiarized Coleridge and Wordsworth.  Two years after the success of their Lyrical Ballads she wrote Lyrical Tales, which was little more than an attempt to cash in on the new Romanticism fad.
:No one who has read Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads and Robinson's Lyrical Tales would call her book plagiarism, nor would an informed Romanticist call the rise of the lyrical ballad a "fad."  The unsigned accusation above is akin to calling Sir Walter Scott's Waverley a plagiarism of Maria Edgeworth--absurd.  Influence does not equal ownership.  Genre and form do not belong to anyone.Josh a brewer 01:28, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: DNB quotes Coleridge's opinion of her:'...Coleridge called her a ‘woman of undoubted Genius’. ‘I never knew a human Being with so full a mind’, he wrote to Southey some seven months before she died, ‘—bad, good, & indifferent, I grant you, but full, & overflowing’ (Collected Letters, ed. Griggs, 1.562).'RLamb (talk) 07:43, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
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message: This line seems to present a POV: "the definitive biography of her by Paula Byrne."  It should probably be removed.  Robinson's Lyrical Tales also warrants further discussion in this article, and her role as poetry editor for the Morning Post could be included.  In fact, her literary career needs its own section.Josh a brewer 01:20, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: DNB gives 'probably born on 27 November 1758 at Minster House, College Green, Bristol, although she may have been the ‘Polly Derby’ baptized at St Augustine-the-Less, Bristol, in 1756.' RLamb (talk) 07:39, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
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message: I was surprised to find Mary Robinson disambiguated as a "poet", since she was equally famous (if not more so!) as an actress, mistress, and novelist. Many scholarly sources refer to her as "Mary Darby Robinson" (see here and here, for random examples). It also mirrors how other eighteenth century authors have been disambiguated, such as Charlotte Turner Smith. Since using Robinson's maiden name in this way offers a natural disambiguation (per WP:NCDAB), I think it would be a better article title. Is it worth moving? ~ oulfis 🌸(talk) 08:35, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move article to "Mary Darby Robinson" instead of "Mary Robinson (poet)"?