"My Rare Wit Killing Sin": Poems of a Restoration Courtier Volume 27

by Anne Killigrew

This is the first modern edition of verse by Anne Killigrew, a poet and portrait painter born in 1660 at the very start of the Restoration, who grew up as part of the complicated political, religious, and artistic worlds of the Restoration courts of Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York. Killigrew never chose to print her verses, but instead participated in a literary circulation network including family, friends, and members of the court;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0772721521
• ISBN13: 9780772721525
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 166 Pages