Research Catalog

Title

The poetry of American women from 1632 to 1945 / by Emily Stipes Watts.

Author

Watts, Emily Stipes

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, ©1977.

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Details

Description

xvi, 218 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

American women have created an especially vigorous and innovative poetry, beginning in 1632 when Anne Bradstreet set aside her needle and picked up her "poet's pen." The topics of American women poets have been various, their images their own, and their modes of expression original. Emily Stipes Watts does not imply that the work of American men and that of American women are two different kinds of poetry, although they have been treated as such in the past. It is her aim, rather, to delineate and define the poetic tradition of women as crucial to the understanding of American poetry as a whole. By 1850, American women of all colors, religions, and social classes were writing and publishing poetry. Within the critical category of "female poetry," developed from 1800 to 1850, these women experimented boldly and prepared the way for the achievement of such women as Emily Dickinson in the second half of the nineteenth century. Indeed at times—for example from 1860 through 1910—it was women who were at the outer edge of prosodic experimentation and innovation in American poetry. Moving chronologically, Professor Watts broadly characterizes the state of American poetry for each period, citing the dominant male poets; she then focuses on women contemporaries, singling out and analyzing their best work. This volume not only brings to light several important women poets but also represents the discovery of a tradition of women writers. This is a unique and invaluable contribution to the history of American literature.

Series Statement

The Dan Danciger publication series

Uniform Title

Dan Danciger publication series

Subjects

• Women and literature
• Geschichte 1632-1945
• Poésie
• Poetry
• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Biographies
• poetry
• USA
• United States
• American poetry > Women authors > History and criticism
• American poetry > History and criticism
• Lyrikerin
• Frauenlyrik
• American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• Women poets, American > Biography
• Women and literature > United States > History

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Biographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [199]-213.

Contents

1632-1758 : Anne Dudley Bradstreet and the other Puritan poets -- 1735-1804 : another kind of independence -- 1800-1850 : the rise of female poetry -- 1800-1850 : Sigourney, Smith and Osgood -- 1850-1900 : refinement and achievement -- 1900-1945 : a rose is a rose with thorns.

ISBN

• 0292764359
• 9780292764354
• 9780292764507
• 0292764502
• 0292765402* (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

76043282

OCLC

• ocm02463497
• 2463497
• SCSB-111980

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library