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Title:
Poetry by English women : Elizabethan to Victorian
JLCTITLE245:
edited with an introduction and notes by R.E. Pritchard.
Uniform Title:
English women's poetry.
Publication Information:
New York : Continuum, 1993.
Physical Description:
272 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780826405999
General Note:
Originally published: English women's poetry. Manchester, England : Carcanet Press, 1990.
Abstract:
"This comprehensive introductory anthology of poems by forty women writers from Elizabethan to Victorian times includes work by aristocrats and frame-workers, by celebrated figures such as Aphra Behn, the Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Christina Rossetti, and by fascinating but hitherto inaccessible poets such as the unaccountably neglected Margaret Cavendish and Mary Leapor. Love songs, feminist polemic, witty satire and religious rhapsody, bawdy fun and grave meditation abound." "Dr. R. E. Pritchard in a concise introduction considers the social and publishing difficulties encountered by writing women. The texts are conveniently modernized and annotated. Each poet is introduced with a biographical sketch, followed by suggestions for further reading." "Compact yet varied and far-ranging, this anthology will provide enjoyment for any poetry reader, and the introduction raises the issues crucial to those interested in the hidden traditions of women's literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 18) and index.
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Contents:
Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock -- Written on a Wall at Woodstock -- Written in her French Psalter -- Doubt of Future Foes -- On Monsieur's Departure / Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) -- from The Admonition by the Auctor -- Wyll and Testament / Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567) -- Psalm 57: Miserere Mei, Deus -- Psalm 58: Si Vere Utique -- Psalm 92: Bonum Est Confiteri -- Psalm 139: Domine, Probasti / Lady Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) -- Description of Cooke-ham / Emilia Lanyer (1569-1645) -- Sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus -- from The Countess of Montgomery's Urania / Lady Mary Wroth (1587?-1652?) -- Prologue -- To my Dear and loving Husband -- Before the Birth of one of her Children -- letter to her Husband -- Upon the Burning of our House / Anne Bradstreet (1613?-1672) -- Song -- Another Song / An Collins (fl. 1653?) -- Excuse for so much writ upon my Verses -- ^ 'A Poet I am neither born, nor bred' -- Of the Theam of Love -- Natures Cook -- Dissert -- Soule, and Body -- Woman drest by Age -- Of the Animal Spirits -- Dialogue betwixt the Body and the Mind -- from The Fort or Castle of Hope -- Discourse of Beasts / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1624?-1674) -- Friendship's Mystery -- To my Excellent Lucasia -- Answer to another persuading a Lady to marriage -- To the Queen of Inconstancy -- Epitaph on her Son H.P. -- Lucasia, Rosania and Orinda parting at a Fountain / Katherine Philips (1631-1664) -- Love Arm'd -- Song: The Willing Mistriss -- Disappointment -- To Alexis -- To the fair Clarinda / Aphra Behn (1640-1689) -- from The Ladies Defence -- To the Ladies / Mary Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710) -- On a Bashful Shepherd -- To One that asked me why I loved J.G. -- Maidenhead -- To a Proud Beauty -- In the Person of a Lady, to Bajazet

On Death -- Upon the saying that my verses were made by another / Anne Killigrew (1660-1685) -- Introduction -- Letter to Daphnis -- from The Spleen -- Unequal Fetters -- Nocturnal Reverie / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) -- from The Female Advocate -- Liberty -- Emulation / Sarah Fyge Egerton (1669-1723) -- To Celinda -- Expostulation -- from To one that persuades me to leave the Muses -- To Orestes -- from A Paraphrase on the Canticles / Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674-1737) -- from Six Town Eclogues -- Lover -- Receipt to Cure the Vapours -- 'Between your sheets' / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) -- Womans Labour / Mary Collier (1690?-after 1762) -- Wish -- Dol and Roger -- Song -- Song -- Fair and Softly goes far / Laetitia Pilkington (1712?-1750) -- from Essay on Friendship -- from The Head-ache -- Sacrifice -- On Winter -- Mira's Will / Mary Leapor (1722-1746) -- from An Epistle to Lady Bowyer -- After the Small Pox -- Soliloquy on an empty Purse / Mary Jones (d. 1778) -- On a Lady's Writing -- Tomorrow -- Washing-Day -- Rights of Woman / Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) -- Verses inviting Mrs C -- to Tea -- from Colebrook Dale -- Invocation, To the Genius of Slumber / Anna Seward (1742-1809) -- from The Bas Bleu -- Riot / Hannah More (1745-1833) -- Written at the Churchyard at Middleton -- On the Aphorism: 'L'Amitie est l'amour sans ailes' -- from Beachy Head -- Thirty-Eight / Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) -- Grasmere -- a Fragment -- Floating Island at Hawkshead -- Thoughts on my sick-bed / Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) -- Recreation -- Squire's Pew / Jane Taylor (1783-1824) -- Homes of England -- Indian Woman's Death Song / Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) -- from Sonnets from the Portuguese -- To George Sand -- ^ from Casa Guidi Windows -- from Aurora Leigh

Musical Instrument / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) -- 'Again I find myself alone' -- 'What does she dream of' -- Diving -- from Retrospection / Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) -- 'High waving heather' -- Plead for Me -- Remembrance -- 'No coward soul is mine' -- Stanzas / Emily Bronte (1818-1848) -- Song / Anne Bronte (1820-1849) -- from Divided -- High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571 / Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) -- Scherzo -- Sunflower / Dora Greenwell (1821-1882) -- Remember -- World -- From the Antique -- Echo -- In an Artist's Studio -- Birthday -- Up-Hill -- Amor Mundi -- Thread of Life / Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) -- Morning -- Afternoon -- Twilight -- Midnight -- from Two Songs -- Wrestling / Louisa S. Bevington (later Guggenberger)(b.1845) -- Renouncement -- Shepherdess -- Maternity -- Parentage -- Dead Harvest -- Chimes / Alice Meynell (1847-1922) -- Song -- Among His Books -- Gray Folk -- Villeggiature / Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) -- London Poets -- Epitaph -- London Plane-Tree -- In the Mile End Road -- Old House / Amy Levy (1861-1889) -- Other Side of a Mirror -- Moment -- In Dispraise of the Moon -- Poison Flower -- Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar -- Marriage -- White Woman.
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