Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing GenreJohns Hopkins University Press, 2005 M12 31 - 544 páginas Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms. Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women's poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet. |
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... couplets are filled with classical allusions . Masters also uses heroic couplets , but her language is simple and vernacular with occasional references to poetic diction , as when she asserts that she has the right to " sing " of " flow ...
... couplets and Hora- tian forms , emphasize their similarities . These poems , of course , make Montagu an unacceptable model for most women , even though , like Egerton and Chud- leigh , they now refused to let printed , misogynist ...
... couplets alternating hex- ameters and pentameters ; the Greeks let them flow from line to line , but the Romans closed the couplet . As Edward Michael says , " Rhythmically , the two lines of an elegiac couplet have different tenors ...
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Anne Finch and What Women Wrote | 28 |
Women and Poetry in the Public Eye | 80 |
Hymns Narratives and Innovations in Religious Poetry | 123 |
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