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Salt and bitter and good : three centuries of English and American women poets
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- ISBN: 0846700239 :
- ISBN: 9780846700234
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304 p. : ports ; 29 cm. - Publisher: New York : Paddington Press, [1975]
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Salt and bitter good -- Prologue ; From "The four ages of man": Childrood ; In honour of Queen Elizabeth ; Before the birth of one of her children ; To my dear and loving husband ; Another ; In reference to her children ; Verses upon the burning of our house / Anne Bradstreet -- Against love ; To Mr. Henry Lawes ; To my excellent Lucasia ; Sea-voyage from Tenby to Bristol ; Upon the double murther of K(ing) Charles I ; To Antenor / Katherine Philips -- On her loving two equally ; Song, by the wavering nymph ; Disappointment ; Willing mistriss ; Love arm'd ; Westminster Drollery, 1671 ; To the fair Clarinda, who made love to me ; Thousand martyrs I have made / Aphra Behn -- Introduction ; Appology ; To the Rt. Hon. the lady C. Tufton ; On myselfe ; Letter to Dafnis ; Clarinda's indifference at parting with her beauty ; Petition for an absolute retreat ; To the nightingale ; Nocturnal reverie / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- From: Beachy Head ; He may be envied, who with tranquil breast ; Mute is thy harp, now, o bard sublime! ; Press'd by the moon, mute arbitress of tides ; Thirty-eight / Charlotte Smith -- To the university of Cambridge, in New England ; On being brought from Africa to America ; To the Earl of Dartmougth ; His excellency, General Washington ; Liberty and peace / Philis Wheatley --Indian woman's death-song ; Memorial pillar ; Properzia Rossi ; Landing of the pilgrim fathers in New England ; Homes of England / Felicia Hemans -- Grief ; Adequacy ; To George Sand ; Runaway slave ; Hiram Powers' "Greek slave" ; Sonnet XXII ; Curse for a nation ; Song for the ragged schools ; Mother and poet / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Goblin market ; From sunset to star rise ; Dirge ; Remember ; On the wing ; Old-World thicket / Christina Rossetti -- Success is counted sweetest ; I taste a liquor never brewed ; Wild nights - wild nights! ; Over the fence ; "Hope" is the thing with feathers ; There's a certain slant of light ; I'm nobody! Who are you? ; Soul selects her own society ; Her "last poems" ; After great pain, a formal feeling comes ; I died for beauty but was scarce ; I'm ceded - I've stopped being theirs ; I started early - took my dog ; Heart asks pleasure first ; 'Tis true - they shut me in the cold ; I had been hungry, all the years ; It would have starved a gnat ; They shut me up in prose ; I cannot live with you ; Me from myself - to banish ; Pain - has an element of blank ; Essential oils - are wrung ; Because I could not stop for death ; My life had stood - a loaded gun ; My life closed twice before its close / Emily Dickinson -- Sower ; Reapers ; Soul-drift ; Lassitude ; Rest ; Manchester by night ; Dead ; Mourning women ; Sakiyeh / Mathilde Blind -- Epochs ; Magnetism ; In memoriam - Rev. J. J. Lyons ; Echoes ; Success ; New colossus ; Down the long hall she glistens like a star ; In exile / Emma Lazarus -- Letter from a girl to her own old age ; Poet of one mood ; Shepherdess ; Parentage ; Chimes ; In Manchester Square ; Summer in England, 1914 ; Father of women ; Watershed ; Rainy Summer / Alice Meynell -- Narrow door ; Madeleine in church ; Monsieur qui Passe ; Fame ; Quiet house ; Farmer's bride / Charlotte Mew -- Meeting-house hill ; On looking at a copy of Alice Meynell's poems ; Streets ; Reaping ; Sisters / Amy Lowell -- Atavism ; Wild peaches ; Confession of faith ; Let no charitable hope ; Cold-blooded creatures ; Epitaph - Nebuchadnezzar ; Full moon ; Proud lady / Elinor Wylie -- Oread ; Helen ; Callypso speaks ; Hipolytus temporizes ; Phaedra ; She contrasts with herself Hippolyta ; She rebukes Hippolyta / Hilda Doolittle -- Steeple-jack ; Rigorists ; Sojourn in the whale ; Silence / Marianne Moore -- Never may the fruit be plucked ; To the wife of a sick friend ; Justice denied in Massachusetts ; Dirge without music ; Apostrophe to man ; Intention to escape from him ; Theme and variations ; Say that we saw Spain die ; Underground system ; Love is not blind. I see with single eye ; I, being born a woman and distressed ; Alcestis to her husband ; Gazing upon him now, severe and dead / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- To any M.F.H. ; Owl ; On the lake ; Sometimes when night ; Black tarn ; Aquarium, San Francisco ; Sea-sonnet / Vita Sackville-West -- Unfortunate coincidence ; Symptom recital ; Interior ; Of a woman, dead young ; Theory ; Coda ; Chant for dark hours ; Fair weather / Dorothy Parker -- Frightened man ; Crows ; Women ; Cassandra ; Hypocrite Swift ; Roman fountain ; Animal, vegetble and mineral ; Question in a field ; Dream ; Evening in the sanitarium / Louise Bogan -- Papa love baby ; Sunt Leones ; Louise ; Major Macroo ; Seymour and Chantelle ; Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith -- Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows ; Disquieting muses ; Stones ; Applicant ; Morning song ; By candlelight ; Aftermath ; Winter trees ; Rabbit catcher / Sylvia Plath. |
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