Anne Finch and Her Poetry

Anne Finch and Her Poetry
Author :
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 302
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0820314102
ISBN-13 : 9780820314105
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Anne Finch and Her Poetry by : Barbara McGovern

Download or read book Anne Finch and Her Poetry written by Barbara McGovern and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Finch and Her Poetry is the first major critical examination of the life and works of the foremost English woman poet of the eighteenth century. This biography places Anne Finch (1661-1720) in her social and literary milieu and includes discussion of such topics as love and marriage, female friendships, melancholy, and nature as they relate both to Finch's life and to her poetry. Barbara McGovern gives considerable attention to the methods by which Finch developed her artistry and molded a largely masculine literary tradition to her own designs through a variety of rhetorical and stylistic devices. She examines the entire body of Finch's work, including two verse plays and a number of previously unpublished poems and letters, and corrects numerous misconceptions about the poet and her work. Though recognized in her lifetime as a talented poet, for nearly two hundred years Finch has been overlooked or, when anthologized, misrepresented. McGovern focuses on the historical place and displacement of Finch in Restoration and early eighteenth-century England in terms of her involvement with Britain's most critical religious and political controversies. An Anglican and Royalist who along with her husband was attached to the Stuart court at the time of the Glorious Revolution, Finch was an outsider because of her politics and religion as well as her gender. Despite her marginal status in society, Anne Finch was able to develop her poetic identity in part by defining her relationships with other early women writers, including Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn. Her female friendships, as well as aristocratic family ties and titled position, gave her access to a number of the most famous literary figures of her age, including Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. A thoroughly researched, well-written, and compelling work, Anne Finch and Her Poetry will no doubt become the standard biography of the finest woman poet in England before the nineteenth century.


Anne Finch and Her Poetry Related Books

Anne Finch and Her Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Barbara McGovern
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Anne Finch and Her Poetry is the first major critical examination of the life and works of the foremost English woman poet of the eighteenth century. This biogr
The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The publication of the Wellesley manuscript marks the first complete edition of fifty-three poems by the most talented and significant woman poet of the Restora
The Poetry of Anne Finch
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Charles H. Hinnant
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: University of Delaware Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

At the same time her stance as a feminist led her not only to articulate issues in terms of gender but also to define her poetry in opposition to the dominant l
The Spleen,
Language: en
Pages: 26
Authors: Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea
Categories: Death
Type: BOOK - Published: 1709 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Miscellany Poems
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Anne Kingsmill Finch
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Anne Finch (nee Kingsmill), Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720), was one of the first female English poets to be published. She was well educated as her family b