Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology
- ISBN-10
- 0582275695
- ISBN-13
- 9780582275690
- Series
- Victorian Women Poets
- Pages
- 382
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Longman
- Author
- Virginia Blain
Description
Victorian Women Poets: An Annotated Anthologybegins with an engaging introduction covering areas such as the subject-matter, sexual politics, the contemporary reception of the poems and modern feminist theories of the poetry. Poems from thirteen poets are then presented, ranging from the well-known - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rosetti - to non-canonical women writers. There are notes throughout which provide the reader with background information on the work and that put the poetry in the context of the period. This anthology of more than 170 poems will be welcomed by a wide range of readers including those interested in poetry, Victorian literature or women writers. Included is poetry from: Felicia Hemans (1793-1835); Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861); Emily Pfeiffer (1827 - 1890); Christina Rossetti (1830-1894); Augusta Webster (1837-1894); Adah Isaacs Menken (1839-1868); Mathilde Blind (1841-1896); 'Michael Field'Katherine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) & Edith Emma Cooper (1862-1913); Constance Naden (1858-1889); Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860-1911); Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907); May KendallEmma Goldsworth (1861-1943); Amy Levy (1861-1889).
