Reading Women's Poetry

by Laurence Lerner

Book Overview

Until quite recently, anthologies of English poetry contained very few poems by women, and histories of English poetry gave little space to women poets. How should poetry lovers respond? The book begins by suggesting four possible responses: the conservative, which claims that women have not written many good poems; individual recuperation, which salvages some fine poems by women but without altering the general view of English poetry; alternative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845193342
• ISBN13: 9781845193348
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.7"