Winged Words: Anthology of Victorian Women's Poetry and Verse - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1870612248 ISBN 13: 9781870612241

Publisher: Enitharmon Press, 1997

Synopsis

This comprehensive volume, the only anthology to give voice to so many excellent women poets of the nineteenth century, will fill a void in current Victorian literature collections. Victorian women poets have been constantly overshadowed by their male counterparts, but now Catherine Reilly has redressed the balance with this meticulously researched and richly varied anthology of poems by sixty-eight Victorian women. Alongside such famous names as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bront and Christina Rossetti are dozens of fine but unfamiliar poets whose work touches on birth and death, love and friendship, family relationships, work and leisure, peace and war, nature and the seasons, the country and the town.Poems by sixty-eight Victorian women are included. The famous Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Mary Coleridge, George Eliot, Alice Meynell, and Olive Custance are here, as well as dozens of fine but lesser known poets. The poets' work and achievements are put into literary and historical context in the introduction and preface. Each poet's work is introduced by a detailed bibliographical note. Interspersed in the text are fifteen images of women by Victorian women artists.

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Review

'an excellent read.' Richard Edmonds, Birmingham Post

About the Author

Catherine Reilly is a professional librarian, now retired; her last appointment was that of Assistant Borough Librarian, Metropolitan Borough of Trafford. She is a Fellow of the Library Association, and has the degree of M. Litt. from Oxford University.Winged Words is her third anthology of women's poetry. Her first collection Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War is now a set text for A Level English Literature examinations. She has also published two major bibliographies of First and Second World War poetry; English Poetry of the Second World War: a Bibliography was awarded the Besterman Medal for Bibliography, 1986. Her next book Late Victorian Poetry, 1880-1889: A Bibliography is to be published shortly.

About this edition

• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1870612248
• ISBN 13: 9781870612241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174
• Editor: Reilly Catherine W.