SOURCE: " Armgart—George Eliot on the Woman Artist," in Victorian Poetry, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring, 1980, pp. 75-80.
In the following excerpt, Blake argues that the poem "Armgart" centers around the conflict between love and art that exists for female artists.
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