American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology

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Cheryl Walker
Rutgers University Press, 1992 - 423 стор.
This publication marks the first time in a hundred years that a wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry has been accessible to the general public in a single volume. Included are the humorous parodies of Phoebe Cary and Mary Weston Fordham and the stirring abolitionist poems of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Harper, Maria Lowell, and Rose Terry Cooke. Included, too, are haunting reflections on madness, drug use, and suicide of women whose lives, as Cheryl Walker explains, were often as melodramatic as the poems they composed and published. In addition to works by more than two dozen poets, the anthology includes ample headnotes about each author's life and a brief critical evaluation of her work. Walker's introduction to the volume provides valuable contextual material to help readers understand the cultural background, economic necessities, literary conventions, and personal dynamics that governed women's poetic production in the nineteenth century.

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Introduction
xv
Selected Bibliography
xliv
Lydia Sigourney 17911865 I
1
Maria Gowen Brooks 17941845
24
Sarah Helen Whitman 18031878
53
Elizabeth OakesSmith 18061893
66
The Bard
72
Emma Embury 18061863
78
Rose Terry Cooke 18271892
258
La Coquette
265
Helen Hunt Jackson 18301885
278
Celia Thaxter 18351894
292
Mary Tucker Lambert 1838?
301
Adah Isaacs Menken 1839?1868
314
Ina Coolbrith 18411928
321
Emma Lazarus 18491887
332

Lucretia Davidson 18081825
93
Frances Sargent Osgood 18111850
106
Anne Lynch Botta 18151891
135
Julia Ward Howe 18191910
148
Alice Cary 18201871
168
Maria White Lowell 18211853
186
Phoebe Cary 18241871
198
Lucy Larcom 18241893
216
Frances Harper 18251911
238
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 18501919
342
Henrietta Cordelia Ray 1850?1916
352
Thomas 18541925
364
Lizette Woodworth Reese 18561935
380
Louise Imogen Guiney 18611920
391
Mary Weston Fordham 1862??
408
On Parting with a Friend
418
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Cheryl Walker is Richard Armour Professor of English at Scripps College. Her first book, The Nightingale's Burden: Women Poets and American Culture Before 1900, won a Choice Magazine Award in 1983.

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