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Maria Gowen Brooks, In and Out of the Poe Circle

The fictional account of the making of a woman poet offered in Maria Gowen Brooks’s 1838 novel Idomen is unusually concerned with reception, reputation, and the construction of posthumous authorial legend. Idomen Burleigh’s tragic life is recounted in fragments to one Herman Albrecht, a sensitive German living in Cuba who sees in her a rare talent, one whose burning desire to write great poems vies with her equally impassioned devotion to the wrong man. Idomen in a related poem dismisses a rival in love with a verse containing this scornful epithet: “She burns but with a common flame.” But with literary and bodily passions thwarted, Idomen—the uncommon flame—has no air left to burn: in a kind of self-immolation that reiterates an earlier suicide attempt, she contracts a tropical fever that drives her toward the river, where she drowns. Albrecht attempts to reconstruct her, reading the documents she left behind and guessing at the contents of those she burned in hopes of resurrecting a “phoenix” from her “flames and fragments,” which have passed through various hands and different languages. The difficult life, and pointedly difficult-to-get-at afterlife, of the fictive Idomen appears to fit neatly into a powerful nineteenth-century figuration of the Poetess “as improvisatrice, as statue or art