Form and Modernity in Women's Poetry, 1895-1922 A Line of Her Own

"Through rigorous analysis of these poets, Parker offers a corrective to the easy association between radical poetics and progressive politics in existing critical discourse, which, to some extent, obscures the poetic achievements of a generation of mature women writers. [...] Parker's periodization strategy deploys and overturns long-standing conceptions of the transitional period between the trial of Oscar Wilde and the annus mirabilis of high modernism. By spotlighting a vibrant poetic scene exemplified by the focal poets in the wake of the fin de siècle, Parker highlights continuities rather than breaks between these literary epochs."

--Wei Zhou, University of Leeds, The Year's Work in English Studies