Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)

Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)

by Duncan Wu (Author)

Synopsis

Designed as a companion to Romanticism: An Anthology, Second Edition, this volume, dedicated exclusively to female poets of the Romantic period, contains complete and unabridged texts of: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Hannah More, Sensibility, The Bas-Bleu, and Slavery: Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (3rd Edition), The Emigrants, and Beachy Head: Ann Yearsley, Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade and Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI: Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, The Passage of the Mountain of St Gothard, A Poem: Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon: Helen Maria Williams, A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade and A Farewell, for Two Years, To England: Ann Batten Cristall, Poetical Sketches: Mary Tighe, Psyche: and Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Stanzas to the Memory of the Late King, and Records of Woman. The selection includes manuscript versions of poems by Susanna Blamire and Lady Caroline Lamb. Other poets represented are: Anna Seward, Mary Scott, Phillis Wheatley, Anne Grant, Joanna Baillie, Ann Radcliffe, Amelia Opie, Charlotte Byrne (aka Charlotte Dacre), Isabella Lickbarrow, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (LEL).

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 1184
Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
Published: 01 Nov 1997

ISBN 10: 0631203303
ISBN 13: 9780631203308

Media Reviews
For complete and authoritative full-length texts by women Romantic poets look no further than Duncan Wu's Romantic Women Poets. For centuries these poems have appeared to us in fragmented, unrecognizable shapes, if at all. Now we can read entire volumes that are rightly given places of honor in their completeness. Two complete volumes of Charlotte Smith's work are included, making this anthology the single-best source for Smith's poetry. Adriana Craciun

For anyone interested in the literature of this date, and for those who are specifically interested in the development of women's poetry, this is a most interesting collection of verse. Reference Reviews

Author Bio
Duncan Wu is Reader in English Literature at Glasgow University. He has edited Blackwell's edition of Wordsworth's Five-Book Prelude and Romanticism: A Critical Reader.