Victorian Women Poets: An Annotated Anthology

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ISBN: 9781408204986 | 1408204983
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Copyright: 7/2/2009

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A timely reissue of a unique and comprehensive anthology of women's poetry from the Victorian Period. Offers a key selection of poems by 13 Victorian women poets from Rosetti to Kendall Substantial introduction placing the work of the poets into context Full annotations and explanatory notes to guide the reader

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The current status of Victorian women poets
The basis of the present selection
Felicia Hemans as the first 'Victorian' poet
The professionalisation of the woman poet
Changing poetic tastes and styles
Anxiety of genre
'Femininity' and sexual difference
The 'poetess' and the woman poet
The challenge of the new sciences to religious orthodoxy
Humour and dreams in women's poetry
Note on the text of this anthology
THE POETS: Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)
Epitaph on Mr W-
The Wife of Asdrubal
Properzia Rossi
Joan of Arc in Rheims
The Homes of England
The Palm-tree
Casabianca
Woman and Fame
To a Wandering Female Singer
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
A Thought for a Lonely Death-bed
The Lady's 'Yes'
The Cry of the Children
Bertha in the Lane
Loved One
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
Hiram Powers'
'Greek Slave'
A Man's Requirements
A Curse for a Nation
A Musical Instrument
Mother and Poet
Emily Pfeiffer (1827-1890)
Nathaniel to Ruth
'Peace to the odalisque, whose morning glory'
Among the Hebrides
To Nature I
To Nature IV
To a Moth that Drinketh of the Ripe October I
To a Moth that Drinketh of the Ripe October II
Aspiration I
A Chrysalis
Studies from the Antiques
Kassandra I
Kassandra II
Klytemnestra I
The Fight at Rorke's Drift
The Bower among the Beans
The Cruse of Tears
A Russian Legend
Mid-ocean
The Witch's Last Ride
Any Husband to Many a Wife
The Sonsy Milkmaid
Christina Rosetti (1830-1894)
Goblin Market
A Birthday
My Dream
Maude Clare
Song
A Better Resurrection
The World
Old and New Year Ditties 3
Long Barren
Autumn Violets
Two Thoughts of Death
In an Artist's Studio
Augusta Webster (1837-1894)
Passing Away
Medea in Athens [extract]
A Castaway [extract]
Where Home Was
The Flood of Is in Brittany
From Mother and Daughter
An Uncompleted Sonnet-Sequence
II
VI
VII
XI
XVI
XX
XXVII
Adah Isaacs Menken (1839-1868)
Judith
Myself
Genius
Aspiration
A Memory
Answer Me
Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)
Manchester by Night
Haunted Streets
Motherhood
On a Forsaken Lark's Nest
The Red Sunsets, 1883
A Winter Landscape
From Love in Exile
I
II
IV
The Message
Many Will Love You
A Fantasy
Scarabæus Sisyphus
Mourning Women
Noonday Rest
'Michael Field' (Katherine Harris Bradley, 1846-1914 and Edith Emma Cooper, 1862-1913)
From Long Ago
XIV
XXIV
XXXIII
XXXIV
XXXV
LII [Tiresias]
LXV
L'Indifférent
La Gioconda
'Thanatos, thy praise I sing'
'A girl'
It was deep April, and the morn'
Irises
Cyclamens
Constancy
Tiger-lilies
Renewal
A Flaw
Onycha
A Palimpsest
Second Thoughts
Wheat-miners
Will You Crucify Your King?
'Loved, on a sudden thou didst come to me'
Lovers
'Lo, my loved is dying, and the call'
Constance Naden (1858-1889)
The Sister of Mercy
The Pantheist's Song of Immortality
Love Versus Learning
Moonlight and Gas
The Two Artists
Love's Mirror
Evolutional Erotics
Scientific Wooing
The New Orthodoxy
Natural Selection
Solomon Redivivus, 1886
The Pessimist's Vision
Poet and Botanist
Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860-1911)
Old Pauline
Ballad of the Bide-bride
Betty Barnes, the Book-burner
Of the Earth, Earthy
Aubade
An Enchanted Princess
The Moor Girl's Well
A Ballad of the Were-wolf
Vespertilia
Hic Jacet
A Midnight Harvest
Serenade
Die Zauberflöte
A Ruined Altar
The White Lady
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
To Memory
The Other Side of a Mirror
Master and Guest
'He came unto His own, and His own received Him not'
'True to myself am I, and false to all'
Our Lady
Doubt
The Witch
Awake
Marriage
On a Bas-relief on Pelops and Hippodameia
In Dispraise of the Moon
Wilder spin
Death
Pride
Wasted
'The fire, the lamp, and I, were alone together'
September
The White Women
'O Earth, my mother! Not upon thy breast'
No Newspapers
A Clever Woman
Alcestis to Admetus
Solo
Sadness
Words
'Some in a child would live, some in a book'
May Kendall (Emma Goldworth, 1861-1943)
Lay of the Trilobite
Ballad of the Ichthyosaurus
The Philanthropist and the Jelly-fish
Woman's Future
Ballad of Cadger
The Last Performance
Church Echoes
Vicar's Daughter
Charity Child
Tramp
Failures
The Sandblast Girl and the Acid Man
Underground
In the Toy Shop
Amy Levy (1861-1889)
Run to Death
Sinfornia Eroica
Magdalen
Christopher Found
To Lallie
A London Plane-tree
Ballade of an Omnibus
London Poets
In the Mile End Road
The Old House
Captivity
Cambridge in the Long
Oh, is it Love?
The First Extra
Philosophy
A Ballad of Religion and Marriage
Bibliography
Index of Titles and First Lines
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Victorian Women Poets: An Annotated Anthology

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