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Eighteenth-century Women Poets
Lonsdale
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Description for Eighteenth-century Women Poets
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
602
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192827753
SKU
V9780192827753
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Ref
99-2
About Lonsdale
Roger Lonsdale is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College. His publications include Dr Charles Burney: A Literary Biography (1965), The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith (1969), and The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse (1984).
Reviews for Eighteenth-century Women Poets
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
Julia Briggs, The Times
Lonsdale has resurrected more than a hundred witty women and set them glistening and pulsing with life and spirits before us.
Claire Tomalin, Independent
Julia Briggs, The Times
Lonsdale has resurrected more than a hundred witty women and set them glistening and pulsing with life and spirits before us.
Claire Tomalin, Independent