Consorting With Angels: Modern Women Poets

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Summary

A critical study of the importance of three generations of women poets.

Wheels, peacocks, ghosts, hambones and hearts : Edith Sitwell's self-fashioning	p. 33
'Tirry-lirry-lirry all the same' : the poetry and performance of Stevie Smith	p. 70
Liberty belles and founding fathers : Sylvia Plath and the search for a gendered writing self	p. 93
Consorting with angels : Anne Sexton and the art of confession	p. 128
Myth, fairytale and feminism after the women's movement	p. 147
Motherlands and mothertongues : writing the poetry of nation	p. 174
Objecting to the subject : science, nature, femininity and poetic process	p. 217
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