Introduction: The Poetess Tradition
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Nanora Sweet
“Under the subtle wreath”: Louise Bogan, Felicia Hemans, and Petrarchan Poetics
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Jeffrey C. Robinson
The Poetics of Expiration: Felicia Hemans
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Kathleen Lundeen
“When Life Becomes Art” — on Hemans’s “Image in Lava”
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Katherine Montwieler
Laughing at Love: L.E.L. and the Embellishment of Eros
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Cynthia Lawford
“Thou shalt bid thy fair hands rove”: L. E. L.’s Wooing of Sex, Pain, Death and the Editor
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Robert Mitchell
“The soul that dreams it shares the power it feels so well”: The Politics of Sympathy in the Abolitionist Verse of Williams and Yearsley
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Shelley King
Politics, Poetics and Propriety: Reviewing Amelia Opie
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Ann R. Hawkins
“Formed with Curious Skill”: Blessington’s negotiation of the “poetess” in Flowers of Loveliness
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Wendy Dasler Johnson
Reviving Lydia Huntley Sigourney
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Annie Finch
Phillis Wheatley and the Sentimental Tradition
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Patrick Vincent
Lucretia Davidson in Europe: Female Elegy, Literary Transmission and the Figure of the Romantic Poetess
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Aimée Boutin
Inventing the “Poétesse”: New Approaches to French Women Romantic Poets
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Laura Mandell Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century. Eds. Nanora Sweet and Julie Melnyk. New York: Palgrave, 2001. ISBN: 0333801091. Price: $65
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