Description |
xxxii, 629 pages ; 23 cm |
Series |
Blackwell anthologies |
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Blackwell anthologies.
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Contents |
Anna Seward -- Anna Laetitia Barbauld -- Hannah More -- Susanna Blamire -- Charlotte Smith -- Mary Scott -- Phillis Wheatley -- Anne Grant -- Ann Yearsley -- Georgiana Cavendish -- Mary Robinson -- Helen Maria Williams -- Joanna Baillie -- Ann Radcliffe -- Ann Batten Cristall --Amelia Opie -- "Charlotte Dacre' -- Mary Tighe -- Sydney Owenson --Isabella Lickbarrow -- Lady Caroline Lamb -- Felicia Dorothea Hemans --Letitia Elizabeth Landon |
Summary |
In this new addition to the Blackwell Anthologies series, Duncan Wu offers the reader complete and unabridged texts of: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven; Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, The Passage of the Mountain of St Gothard; Ann Batten Cristall, Poetical Sketches; Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Stanzas to the Memory of the Late King and Records of Woman; Hannah More, Sensibility, The Bas-Bleu and Slavery; Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon; Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (3rd edition), The Emigrants and Beachy Head; Mary Tighe, Psyche; Helen Maria Williams, A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave-Trade and A Farewell, for Two Years, to England; Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade and Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI. The selection includes manuscript versions of poems by Susanna Blamire and Lady Caroline Lamb |
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Other poets represented are: Joanna Baillie, 'Charlotte Dacre' (Charlotte Byrne), Anne Grant, Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.), Isabella Lickbarrow, Amelia Opie, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), Ann Radcliffe, Anna Seward, Mary Scott and Phillis Wheatley |
Notes |
Includes indexes |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Audience |
Tertiary, Professional/Research |
Subject |
English poetry -- 19th century.
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English poetry -- Women authors.
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English poetry -- 18th century.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Women -- Poetry.
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Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Author |
Wu, Duncan.
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LC no. |
97000926 |
ISBN |
063120329X alkaline paper |
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0631203303 paperback alkaline paper |
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