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Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson
By (Author) Margaret Homans
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
821.009
Paperback
272
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
369g
How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination With this question Margaret Homans introduces her study of three nineteenth-century women poets and their response to a literary tradition that defines the poet as male. Her answer suggests why there were so few great women poets in an age when most of the gr