A Letter to My Love: Love Poems by Women First Published in the Barbados Gazette, 1731-1737Bill Overton University of Delaware Press, 2001 - 155 páginas This is a critical edition, with introduction, afterword, and notes, of forty-one poems written by one or more women in England and first published in one of the earliest Carribean newsparers, the 'Barbados Gazette'. The poems are of interest not only for thier quality, but becasue they challenge widely held preconcpetions about eighteenth-century verse. |
Contenido
1 On Reading Dr Donnes Poems | 45 |
2 To Believe me but my Actions speak | 46 |
3 To the SAME | 47 |
5 Occasioned by his Illness | 48 |
6 His PICTURE | 49 |
7 Written on one of his Letters | 50 |
8 On a FAN presented | 51 |
9 To Mr Oh what retains thee now what new Design | 52 |
24 To my LOVE Wrote in Tears Dearest Creature of thy Kind | 67 |
25 To my LOVE When in my fond Embraces fast confind | 68 |
26 To the Same Times Wings are lost now thy dear Eyes are gone | 69 |
27 To Love deathless Love is the most noble Sign | 73 |
29 To | 74 |
30 Untitled Why pants my fondest tender Dove | 75 |
32 Untitled I chide the Winds and hate the Air | 76 |
34 Untitled When Oh my Stars when will ye join | 77 |
11 The COMPLAINT | 53 |
12 The ABSENT | 54 |
13 SONG While my Eyes are fondly speaking | 55 |
14 The PROTESTATION | 56 |
16 To the SAME While to thy dear lovd Arms I press | 57 |
17 To the SAME Let the God of Passion hear me | 58 |
18 To the SAME Tho blind with Love I well perceive | 59 |
19 On being charged with Writing incorrectly | 60 |
20 Untitled To my Breast thy Verse applying | 61 |
21 A Letter to my LoveAll alone past 12 in the Dumps | 63 |
22 Occasiond by some Lines of his | 64 |
23 To DAMON In vain oh much in vain for Rest I seek | 66 |
35 An Imitation of Sapho Written by One of her own Sex | 78 |
36 On CHRISTMAS Morning Written by a Young Lady | 79 |
38 To Mron his having resolved to write no more By Clio | 80 |
39 Untitled To Aberglasney lovely place | 81 |
40 To From Love and Anger for a while set free | 83 |
Afterword | 86 |
Introductory matter from Caribbeana | 113 |
Texts of other poems for comparison | 127 |
Notes | 131 |
Poems in chronological order of publication | 150 |
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