Title
Women poets of the English Civil War / edited by Sarah C. E. Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann.
ISBN
1526128705 (paperback)
9781526128706 (paperback)
9780719086243 (hardcover)
0719086248 (hardcover)
Published
[Manchester] : Manchester University Press, [2018]
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
PR1177 .W638 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.40809287
Summary
This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom use, and for ready comparison to mainstream editions of male poets' work. The anthology reveals the diversity of women's poetry in the mid-seventeenth century, across political affiliations and forms of publication. Notes on the poems and an introduction explain the contexts of Civil War, religious conflict, and scientific and literary development. The anthology enables a more comprehensive understanding of seventeenth-century women's poetic culture, both in its own right and in relation to prominent male poets such as Marvell, Milton and Dryden.
Note
This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom use, and for ready comparison to mainstream editions of male poets' work. The anthology reveals the diversity of women's poetry in the mid-seventeenth century, across political affiliations and forms of publication. Notes on the poems and an introduction explain the contexts of Civil War, religious conflict, and scientific and literary development. The anthology enables a more comprehensive understanding of seventeenth-century women's poetic culture, both in its own right and in relation to prominent male poets such as Marvell, Milton and Dryden.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 21-28) and index.
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Timeline. Introduction
Further reading. Anne Bradstreet : From The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650)
From Several Poems (1678) .
Hester Pulter.
Katherine Philips : From the "Tutin" manuscript
From the "Tutin" manuscript, reverse
From Poems (1664)
From Poems (1667). Margaret Cavendish : From Philosophical Fancies (1653)
From Poems and Fancies (1664). Lucy Hutchinson : From De rerum natura
From British Library, additional MS 17018
From Elegies
From Order and Disorder
From Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Textual introduction
Textual notes
Index of first lines.
