Eighteenth Century Women Poets An Oxford Anthology

Name: Eighteenth Century Women Poets An Oxford Anthology
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ISBN: 9780192827753

ISBN-10: 0192827758

ISBN-13: 9780192827753

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Roger Lonsdale

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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…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction


The poems (too many authors to list)


Sources and notes


Index of titles and first lines


Index of authors


Index of selected topics