Major Voices in 19th Century American Women's Poetry

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An introductory essay will identify central concerns, historical backgrounds, evolving patterns and poetic issues, as marked through the course of the century. The work of these poets provides a gripping view of the creativity of nineteenth-century American women that has been until recently almost entirely lost to literary history. Supremely relevant to today's readers, this is poetry that began the efforts at the redefinition of self, of America, and of womanhood that continues to touch the lives and thoughts of so many today.

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Shira Wolosky received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, and was an Associate Professor of English at Yale University before moving to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is a Professor of English and American Literature. She has written Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War, Language Mysticism, The Art of Poetry, and Poetry and Public Discourse: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry.