American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century
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American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century
American Women Writers
American women's poetry
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Cheryl Walker
drug use
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Frances Harper
haunting reflections
humorous parodies
Lydia Sigourney
madness
Maria Lowell
Mary Weston Fordham
Phoebe Cary
poetry
Rose Terry Cooke
stirring abolitionist poems
suicide of women
wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry
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- ISBN 9780813517919
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1992
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
