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'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Poetry after 1822 (2014)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M. (2014). 'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Poetry after 1822. Women's Writing, 21(1), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2014.881064

This essay takes its title from a phrase used by Maria Jewsbury in a review article of 1831, which discusses Hemans's mid-career change towards a more expressive and imaginative poetry. The essay illustrates how traces of Shelley's writings pervade t... Read More about 'Materials for Imagination': Shelleyan Traces in Felicia Hemans's Poetry after 1822.

Ebb and Flow in The Excursion (2014)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M. (2014). Ebb and Flow in The Excursion. Wordsworth circle, 45(2), 93-98

What will never do is the lingering notion that The Excursion requires nervously self-qualifying apologias. It needs to be stated roundly that the poem is a masterpiece, especially in Books I to IV (the main region of my concern), even if it is a mas... Read More about Ebb and Flow in The Excursion.

Reading Shelley (2014)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M. (2014). Reading Shelley. Annual bulletin of Japan Shelley Studies Center, 22, 13-15