Invocation, Evocation, Vocation: Communication with the Dead and Poetic Investiture in Felicia Hemans's "A Spirit's Return".

Felicia Hemans's "A Spirit's Return" (1830) is one of the most triumphant—though largely overlooked—representations of communication with the dead in Romantic poetry. The article offers a new reading of the poem by uncovering the correspondence between lyric invocation, necromantic evocation, and po...

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Published in:	Studies in Romanticism Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 129 - 150
Main Author:	Colombani, Greta
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press Summer2025
Subjects:	Spirit's Return, A (Poem) Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne, 1793-1835 Women poets Lyric poetry Poetics Romanticism (Literary period)
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