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_] Alice Meynell, [Footnote: Francis Thompson, _Sister Songs,
on her Photograph, To a Poet Breaking Silence._] Felicia Hemans,
[Footnote: L. E. Maclean, _Felicia Hemans._] Adelaide Proctor,
[Footnote: Edwin Arnold, _Adelaide Anne Proctor._] Helen Hunt,
[Footnote: Richard Watson Gilder, _H. H._] Emma Lazarus
[Footnote: _Ibid., To E. Lazarus._]--one finds woman the subject of
complimentary verse from their brothers. There is nothing to complain of
here, we should say at first, and yet, in the unreserved praise given to
their greatest is a note that irritates the feminists. For men have made
it plain that Sappho was not like other women; it is the "virility" of
her style that appeals to them; they have even gone so far as to hail
her "manlike maiden." [Footnote: Swinburne, _On the Cliffs._] So the
feminists have been only embittered by their brothers' praise.
As time wears on, writers averse to feminine verse seem to be losing the
courage of their convictions. At the end of the eighteenth century,
woman's opponent was not afraid to express himself.


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