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In the first decade of the eighteenth century, only two women published collections of verse. By the 1790s, more than thirty had done so. Yet, in the two intervening centuries, most of that verse has disappeared from view--now either ignored or forgotten. This delightful anthology takes us back to Augustan England, introducing over one hundred of these lost poets from Lady Mary Chudleigh and Octavia Walsh to Mary Locke and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess...
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Challenging the traditional, narrow view of eighteenth-century poetry as an era of Augustan reason, this anthology presents 552 selections, including scurrilous, bawdy, and anti-rational verse, as well as themes usually associated with the century's poetry.
Contains over 550 poems and excerpts by more than 250 poets from the eighteenth century.