British Women Poets of the Romantic Era
Subtitle: An Anthology
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 920
ISBN-13: 9780801866401
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 19th century; Poetry anthologies: 19th century; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Literary Criticism; Poetry; English; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Anthologies (multiple authors); English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Although their influence and even their existence has been largely unacknowledged by literary scholars and critics throughout most of the twentieth century, women poets were, as their contemporary John Hamilton Reynolds nervously acknowledged, a force to be reckoned with in early-nineteenth century Britain.