Women Poets of the English Civil War by Sarah C E Ross

Women Poets of the English Civil War by Sarah C E Ross

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. It presents these poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom use, and for ready comparison to mainstream editions of male poets' work. The anthology reveals the diversity of women's poetry in the mid-seventeenth century, across political affiliations and forms of publication. Notes on the poems and an introduction explain the contexts of Civil War, religious conflict, and scientific and literary development. The anthology enables a more comprehensive understanding of seventeenth-century women's poetic culture, both in its own right and in relation to prominent male poets such as Marvell, Milton and Dryden.

‘Sarah Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann’s readable, beautifully presented, and affordable new anthology, Women Writers of the English Civil War, makes it easier than ever before to appreciate the extent to which women poets participated in )and fundamentally contributed to) early modern experiments in poetic form’
Dianne Mitchell, Renaissance Studies

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Sarah C. E. Ross is Associate Professor in English at Victoria University of Wellington

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at King’s College London

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ISBN 13	9781526128706
ISBN 10	1526128705
Title	Women Poets of the English Civil War
Author	Sarah C E Ross
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Manchester University Press
Year published	2017-11-28
Number of pages	392
Prizes	Winner of Winner of the 2018 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Award for Best Teaching Edition 2018 (UK)
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.