This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a
range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively
writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily
Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Women's Poetry
offers a thoroughgoing thematic study of key texts, poets and
issues, analysing commonalities and differences across diverse
writers, periods, and forms. The book is alert, throughout, to the
diversity of women's poetry. Close readings of selected texts are
combined with a discussion of key theories and critical practices,
and students are encouraged to think about women's poetry in the
light of debates about race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and
regional and national identity. The book opens with a chronology
followed by a comprehensive Introduction which outlines various
approaches to reading women's poetry. Seven chapters follow, and a
Conclusion and section of useful resources close the book. Key
Features * Wide-ranging and flexible in scope, giving detailed
consideration to widely-taught poets, texts, periods and issues *
Introduces themes, questions and perspectives applicable to the
work of other less familiar writers * Encourages informed
discussion of the difficulties of defining a discrete genre of
'women's poetry' * Offers valuable introductory and supplementary
guidance for students * Discusses in detail poems by Margaret
Cavendish, Anne Bradstreet, Sara Coleridge, Christina Rossetti,
Emily Dickinson, Edith Sitwell, Amy Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ruth
Fainlight, Grace Nicholls, Eavan Boland, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay
and Carol Ann Duffy.
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