Poetic Sisters : Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets.

Poetic Sisters : Early Eighteenth-Century Women Poets.

Poetic Sisters explores the personal and literary connections among five eighteenth-century women poets, who wrote on a wide variety of topics from serious religious poems to light-hearted verses on shopping. Anchored in the work of Anne Finch, author of "A Nocturnal Reverie," this book ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kennedy, Deborah
Corporate Author: Bucknell University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Bucknell University Press, 2012.
Series:Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects:
1700-1799
English poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism.
English poetry
English poetry > Women authors
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introducing the poetic sisters
  • She triumphs with a song : The poetry of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
  • Singing her heart out : Elizabeth Rowe
  • The Countess of Hertford and the poetry of the English landscape
  • Sarah Dixon, the Kentish poetess
  • Mary Jones, the Oxford poet
  • Sisterly muses.

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