Talk:Lamia and Other Poems

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This is an interesting article, but shouldn't the primary emphasis be on contextualizing the poems within Romanticism as a whole, rather than the Gothic? I'm not denying the validity of the article, but it seems slightly.. (tangential, maybe?) .. for an encyclopedia. That said, I don't feel like enough of an expert to add to it myself, so perhaps I shouldn't criticize!
~~Dave
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[edit] Context needed

This poem plunges into a discussion of Lamia (what happened to the "Other Poems?" I know "Lamia and Other Poems" is the title of the book in which Lamia was published, but either we discuss the book, or we discuss the poem) without giving the reader more than a vague idea of what Lamia is. There's no discussion of the theme or plot, or even who the heck Lamia is. As someone vaguely acquainted with Lamia thanks to literature classes in college, I can't even see for the life of me how this poem can be described as Gothic; the Eve of St. Agnes, yes, definitely, but Lamia? This article needs work, and I'm not one to touch it, except perhaps to dump a little detail here and there, where it can possibly be squeezed in amongst an earnest (but incomprehensible) discussion of the poem's language. Johnleemk | Talk 08:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)