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Title Romantic women poets : an anthology / edited by Duncan Wu
Published Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998

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Description xxxii, 629 pages ; 23 cm
Series Blackwell anthologies
Blackwell anthologies.
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
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.
English poetry -- Women authors.
English poetry -- 18th century.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Women -- Poetry.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Poetry.
Author Wu, Duncan.
LC no. 97000926
ISBN 063120329X alkaline paper
0631203303 paperback alkaline paper