These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. 2 To appreciate Montagu’s contributions to the course of English poetry, we must attend to her skilled use of forms associated with the canon and her exploration of poetic personas and lyric passion in relation to these forms. From her satires to her lyrics, Montagu’s poetry not only shows a fluent command of formal features and classical erudition valued by a male-dominated poetic elite but also delineates a woman’s experience inside and outside a poetic discourse that has been associated with the ‘masculine’ world of the ‘Augustans’.
1 Her poetry is only gradually gaining the attention it deserves, however. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) is better known for her life and letters than for her poetry Scholars of the eighteenth century are familiar with this aristocrat’s life as traveller, proponent of the smallpox inoculation, and associate of prominent writers of her day, including Alexander Pope and Mary Astell.
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