This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of
the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted
since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding
fully the literary history of women writers.
Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine E. Ingrassia demonstrate the
enormous diversity of poetry produced during this time by
organizing the poems in three broad and deliberately overlapping
categories: by genre, establishing that women wrote in all of the
forms that men did with equal mastery and creativity; by theme,
offering a revisionary look at the range of topics these writers
addressed, including war, ecology, friendship, religion, and the
stages of life; and by the poems' more specific focus on the
women's experiences as writers.
Backscheider and Ingrassia have selected poems that represent
the best work of skilled poets, creating a wonderful mix of
canonical and little-known pieces. They include the complete texts
of longer poems that are abridged or omitted in other collections.
Their substantial part introductions, textual notes,
bibliographical information, and biographical sketches situate the
poets and their writings within the cultural and political milieu
in which they appeared.
To generate further scholarship on this subject, this essential
anthology puts primary texts in front of students, scholars, and
general readers. It fills the persistent need to document women's
poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite
the literary history of the period, a history from which women have
largely been excluded.
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