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简介：Includes works by: Lydia Huntley Sigourney; Maria Gowen Brooks; Elizabeth Oakes Smith; Frances Anne Butler Kemble; Sarah Margaret Fuller; Frances Sargent Locke Osgood; Sarah Louisa Forten; Julia Ward Howe; Alice Cary; Phoebe Cary; Lucy Larcom; Adeline D.T. Whitney; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Rose Terry Cooke; Rosa Vertner Johnson Jeffrey; Helen Hunt Jackson; Emily Dickinson; Adah Isaacs Menken; Celia Thaxter; Harriet Prescott Spofford; Louise Chandler Moulton; Sarah Mrogan Bryan Platt; Christine Rutledge/The Carolina Singers; Elixabeth Stuart Phelps; Emma Lazarus; Henrietta Cordelia Ray; Edith M. Thomas; Lizette Woodworth Reese; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Louise Imogen Guiney; E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake); Sophie Jewett; Edith Wharton; Elaine Goodale Eastman; Dora Read Goodale; Frances Densmore; Mary Hunter Austin; and Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson.
Paula Bernats anthology, based on pioneering archival research, establishes nineteenth-century American womens poetry as a major field in American literature and American womens history. Selections from one hundred and forty writers provide a rich yet balanced interweaving of established and marginalized womens poetry form every geographical region of the United States, with many poems taken from over a hundred national, regional, and special interest newspapers and periodicals, including such fugitive sources as the Colored American, The Chreokee Phoenix, the Cincinnati Israelite, the Irish Nationalist, the Shaker and Shakeress, and the New Century for Women. Arguing for a new, more comprehensive concept of canonization, Bennett none the less submits all selections to the test of the poem itself. At the same time, she gives special attention to poetry devoted to women's issues - the evolution of feminist consciousness, the expression of women's subjectivities, and the emergence of the new woman. Previously neglected avant-garde poetry from the last decades of the century, as found in penny magazines of the period, is also thoroughly covered with compelling consequences for the understanding of Emily Dickinson and the early women modernists, Amy Lowell and H.D. A key test for the classroom, Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets: an Anthology offers an inviting wealth of classic and newly discovered poetry for scholars and general readers alike. - Back cover.
