The Nightingaleas Burden: Women Poets and American Culture Before 1900

by Cheryl Walker

Book Overview

In this evocative exploration, Cheryl Walker shows that there is a distinct tradition of women's poetry in America--one that the poets themselves have not always been fully aware of--and that individual poems can be read as manifestations of that tradition. Philomela, the nightingale of literary mythology, serves as a model for women poets, representing simultaneously both their particular forms of power and the frustrating powerlessness imposed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253340659
• ISBN13: 9780253340658
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher