| Description |
xxvi, 337 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction Gender, creativity, and the woman poet / Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- 1. "A lonesome glee" -poets before 1800 Jane Lead: mysticism and the woman cloathed with the sun / Catherine F. Smith -- Anne Bradstreet's poetry: a study of subversive piety / Wendy Martin -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea: an Augustan woman poet / Katharine Rogers -- 2. "Titanic opera" -nineteenth-century poets This changeful life: Emily Brontë's anti-romance / Nina Auerbach -- Working into light: Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Helen Cooper -- Christina Rossetti: the inward pose / Dolores Rosenblum -- Vesuvius at home: the power of Emily Dickinson / Adrienne Rich -- Emily Dickinson and the deerslayer: the dilemma of the woman poet in America / Albert Gelpi -- Armored women, naked men: Dickinson, Whitman, and their successors / Terence Diggory -- 3. "The silver reticence" -modernists The art of silence and the forms of women's poetry / Jeanne Kammer -- Afro-American women poets: a bio-critical survey / Gloria T. Hull -- Edna St. Vincent Millay and the language of vulnerability / Jane Stanbrough -- The echoing spell of H.D.'s Trilogy / Susan Gubar -- 4. "The difference -made me bold" -contemporary poets May Swenson and the shapes of speculation / Alicia Ostriker -- Gwendolyn the terrible: propositions on eleven poems / Hortense J. Spillers -- A fine, white flying myth: the life/work of Sylvia Plath / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Seeking the exit or the home: poetry and salvation in the career of Anne Sexton / Suzanne Juhasz -- A common language: the American woman poet / Barbara Charelesworth Gelpi -- The critique of consciousness and myth in Levertov, Rich, and Rukeyser / Rachel Blau Duplessis |
| Analysis |
Poetry in English Women writers |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 301-314 |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| SUBJECT |
Women & literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42026678
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| Subject |
American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Feminism and literature.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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Feminist poetry, American -- History and criticism.
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Feminist poetry, English -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature.
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| Author |
Gilbert, Sandra M.
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Gubar, Susan, 1944-
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| LC no. |
78009510 |
| ISBN |
0253112583 |
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