Eighteenth-Century Women Poets
An Oxford Anthology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 August 1990
- ISBN 9780192827753
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages608 pages
- Size 196x129x32 mm
- Weight 395 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
More than a hundred women poets of the eighteenth century are represented in this anthology. Written by duchesses, ladies, and working women, the poems speak with vigour and immediacy of the world they lived in and their experiences of town and country, love and marriage, public and private topics. In a range of moods from melancholic and resentful to the humorous and exuberant, the poets open a new perspective on their age, and provide grounds for a reassessment of a neglected aspect of its literature.
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Who were the women poets of the eighteenth century? More than a hundred are represented in this anthology, yet only few have hitherto featured in conventional surveys and anthologies of eighteenth-century verse. Unlike the women who wrote fiction, the vast majority of those who wrote verse have been ignored and forgotten since their own day. Yet they speak with vigour and immediacy, in a range of moods from the resentful and melancholic to the humorous and exuberant; about the world they lived in and their experience of life in town and country, of love and marriage. Nor were they all from one social class: as the biographical headnotes reveal, women at all levels of society, washerwomen and duchesses, both wrote and found their way into print. Usually most at ease writing in informal and unpretentious verse, the women poets grew in confidence during the century, writing eventually in a great variety of poetic forms and on public as well as private topics. The writers in this wide-ranging and unpredictable anthology open a new perspective on their age, and provide the grounds for a reassessment of a neglected aspect of its literature.
Roger Lonsdale edited the New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse.
a delight to read, an almost entirely unfamiliar collection of poems, commenting on a wide range of human feelings and experience with outstanding wit, humour and honesty
Table of Contents:
Introduction; The poems (too many authors to list); Sources and notes; Index of titles and first lines; Index of authors; Index of selected topics
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