17th- and 18th-Century Poems by Women
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7 chapters · 18 min · English
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This class project is a collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century verse by women, focusing first on women as writers. It has been coordinated by the students' teacher, Tonya Howe.
Chapters
1 'The Prologue,' by Anne Bradstreet 3 min 2 'The Author to Her Book,' by Anne Bradstreet 2 min 3 'The Poetess's Hasty Resolution,' by Margaret Cavendish 1 min 4 'To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman,' by Aphra Behn 2 min 5 'The Disappointment,' by Aphra Behn 6 min 6 'To My Lord Colrane, In Answer to His Complemental Verses Sent Me Under the Name of Cleanor,' by Anne Killigrew 2 min 7 'The Rights of Woman,' by Anna Letitia Barbauld 2 min