Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology

{{Short description|1989 poetry anthology}}

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| name = Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology

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| author = Roger Lonsdale

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| genre = Poetry

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| release_date = 1989

| media_type = print

| pages = xlvii, 555 pages; 23 cm

| isbn = 9780198117698

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| congress = PR1177.V47 1989

| oclc = 19122764

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Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology is a poetry anthology edited by Roger Lonsdale and published in 1989 by the Oxford University Press. In the introduction, Lonsdale notes that while the featured writers may have flourished, to one degree or another, during the eighteenth century, by the time he came to collect their work, many of them had "disappeared from view."Introduction, xxi. Scholars since have credited Lonsdale's "unprecedented"[https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/986175/Reviews Review] by B. Kowaleski-Wallace, American Library Association work for opening up new avenues for teaching and research. The collection comprises three hundred and twenty-three separate poems by one hundred and seven different poets, fifteen of whom remain anonymous. The entries are arranged chronologically, and each includes a biographical note.

Poets represented

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Etext

  • Lonsdale, Roger, ed. Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology. OUP, 1989. [https://archive.org/details/eighteenthcentur00roge/page/n5/mode/2up Open access] from the Internet Archive.