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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452993703321

Autore

Kennedy Deborah <1959->

Titolo

Poetic sisters [[electronic resource] ] : early eighteenth-century women poets / / Deborah Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, Md., : Bucknell University Press

Lanham, Md., : Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2013

ISBN

1-61148-486-3

1-299-18494-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Transits : literature, thought & culture

Disciplina

821/.5099287

Soggetti

English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism

English poetry - 18th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introducing the poetic sisters -- She triumphs with a song : The poetry of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- Singing her heart out : Elizabeth Rowe -- The Countess of Hertford and the poetry of the English landscape -- Sarah Dixon, the Kentish poetess -- Mary Jones, the Oxford poet -- Sisterly muses.

Sommario/riassunto

Poetic Sisters explores the personal and literary connections among five eighteenth-century women poets, who wrote on a wide variety of topics from serious religious poems to light-hearted verses on shopping. Anchored in the work of Anne Finch, author of "A Nocturnal Reverie," this book explores a female literary network and emphasizes the range and extent of these writers' poetic achievement and its resonance for the twenty-first century reader.