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Winged Words: An Anthology of Victorian Women's: Poetry & Verse
Winged Words An Anthology of Victorian Women's Poetry Verse Author:Catherine Reilly This comprehensive volume, the only anthology to give voice to so many excellent women poets of the nineteenth century, will fill a void in current Victorian literature collections. Poems by sixty-eight Victorian women are included. The famous Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Brontė, Christina Rossetti, Mary Coleridge, George Eliot, Alice Meyne... more »ll, and Olive Custance are here, as well as dozens of fine but lesser known poets. The poets' work and achievements are put into literary and historical context in the introduction and preface. Each poet's work is introduced by a detailed bibliographical note. Interspersed in the text are fifteen images of women by Victorian women artists.« less