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Until Quite Recently, Anthologies Of English Poetry Contained Very Few Poems By Women, And Histories Of English Poetry Gave Little Space To Women Poets. How Should Poetry Lovers Respond? This Book Begins By Suggesting Four Possible Responses: The Conservative, Which Claims That Women Have Not Written Many Good Poems; Individual Recuperation, Which Salvages Some Fine Poems By Women But Without Altering The General View Of English Poetry; Alternative Canon, Which Claims That Women Do Not Write The Same Kind Of Poetry As Men, So That Their Work Should Be Judged By Different Standards; And Cultural Recuperation, Which Claims That Women's Poetry Is A Cultural Phenomenon, And Should Be Read And Studied Without Subjecting It To Any Aesthetic Tests. All These Positions Can Be Defended. This Book Is About Reading Women's Poems, Rather Than Forming Theories About Them: It Explores The Experience Of Reading Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Browning, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson And Many Others. Beginning With Katherine Philips, The First Englishwoman To Achieve Fame As A Poet, It Covers Three Centuries To The Work Of Sylvia Plath And Stevie Smith. It Is Hoped That The Form Of Discussion Of The Se

Author

Lerner, Laurence.

Publisher

Brighton ; Portland: Sussex Academic Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781845193379

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History

Updated

2026-03-24