Shakespeare's Sisters

"... the best collection of feminist essays on women poets now available." -- Spokeswoman Review"[The essays] form a satisfying whole, stunningly enlightening, important for literature and women's studies.... " -- Library JournalThe essays in this landmark volume highlight the achievements of "Shakespeare's sisters," including Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and others.

AcknowledgmentsSandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Introduction: Gender, Creativity, and the Woman PoetI. ÒA Lonesome GleeÓ--Poets before 18001. Catherine F. Smith, Jane Lead: Mysticism and the Woman Cloathed with the Sun2. Wendy Martin, Anne BradstreetÕs Poetry: A Study of Subversive Piety3. Katharine Rogers, Anne Finch, Countess of Winshilsea: An Augustan Woman PoetII. ÒTitanic OperaÓ--Nineteenth-Century Poets4. Nina Auerbach, This Changeful Life: Emily BronteÕs Anti-Romance5. Helen Cooper, Working into Light: Elizabeth Barrett Browning6. Dolores Rosenblum, Christina Rossetti: The Inward Pose7. Adrienne Rich, Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson8. Albert Gelpi, Emily Dickinson and the Deerslayer: The Dilemma of the Woman Poet in America9. Terence Diggory, Armored Women, Naked Men: Dickinson, Whitman and Their SuccessorsIII. ÒThe Silver ReticenceÓ--Modernists10. Jeanne Kammer, The Art of Silence and the Forms of WomenÕs Poetry11. Gloria T. Hull, Afro-American Women Poets: A Bio-Critical Survey12. Jane Stanbrough, Edna St. Vincent Millay and the Language of Vulnerability13. Susan Gubar, The Echoing Spell of H.D.Õs TrilogyIV. ÒThe Difference--Made Me BoldÓ--Contemporary Poets14. Alicia Ostriker, May Swenson and the Shapes of Speculation15. Hortense J. Spillers, Gwendolyn the Terrible: Propositions on Eleven Poems16. Sandra M. Gilbert, A Fine, White Flying Myth: The Life/Work of Sylvia Plath17. Suzanne Juhasz, Seeking the Exit of the Home: Poetry and Salvation in the Career of Anne Sexton18. Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, A Common Language: The American Woman Poet19. Rachel Blau Duplessis, The Critique of Consciousness and Myth in Levertov, Rich, and RukeyserSelected BibliographyNotesAbout the Authors