Women's poetry

Resource Information

The work Women's poetry represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Women's poetry

Statement of responsibility

Jo Gill

Creator

• Gill, Jo, 1965-

Subject

• American poetry -- Women authors
• American poetry -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Englisch
• English poetry -- Women authors
• English poetry -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Frauenlyrik
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
• Poetry -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Poetry -- Women authors

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Women's Poetry offers a thoroughgoing thematic study of key texts, poets and issues, analysing commonalities and differences across diverse writers, periods, and forms. The book is alert, throughout, to the diversity of women's poetry. Close readings of selected texts are combined with a discussion of key theories and critical practices, and students are encouraged to think about women's poetry in the light of debates about race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and regional and national identity. The book opens with a chronology followed by a comprehensive Introduction which outlines various approaches to reading women's poetry. Seven chapters follow, and a Conclusion and section of useful resources close the book. Key Features Wide-ranging and flexible in scope, giving detailed consideration to widely-taught poets, texts, periods and issues Introduces themes, questions and perspectives applicable to the work of other less familiar writers Encourages informed discussion of the difficulties of defining a discrete genre of 'women's poetry' Offers valuable introductory and supplementary guidance for students Discusses in detail poems by Margaret Cavendish, Anne Bradstreet, Sara Coleridge, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Edith Sitwell, Amy Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ruth Fainlight, Grace Nicholls, Eavan Boland, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Carol Ann Duffy

Member of

• Edinburgh critical guides to literature
• Ebook Central Academic Complete
• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

821.009

Index

index present

LC call number

PR116

LC item number

.G55 2007eb

Literary form

poetry

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Edinburgh critical guides to literature