Eighteenth Century Women Poets by Roger Lonsdale

Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Roger Lonsdale edited the New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse.

The writers in this wide-ranging and unpredictable anthology open a new perspective on their age, and provide the grounds for a reassessment of a neglected aspect of its literature. Usually most at ease writing in informal and unpretentious verse, the women poets grew in confidence during the century, writing eventually in a great variety of poetic forms and on public as well as private topics. Levels of society, washerwomen and duchesses, both wrote and found their way into print.

Nor were they all from one social class: as the biographical headnotes reveal, women at all Yet they speak with vigour and immediacy, in a range of moods from the resentful and melancholic to the humorous andĮxuberant about the world they lived in and their experience of life in town and country, of love and marriage.

Unlike the women who wrote fiction, the vast majority of those who wrote verse have been ignored and forgotten since their own day. Who were the women poets of the eighteenth century? More than a hundred are represented in this anthology, yet only few have hitherto featured in conventional surveys and anthologies of eighteenth-century verse.

Eighteenth Century Women Poets by Roger Lonsdale