This volume is devoted to Augustan and 18th-century literature, from the 1660s, decade of the English Revolution, to the 1780s and 1790s, decades of revolution abroad. Most of the great writers of the age were engaged in public life and politics. By the 1740s, which saw the deaths of Pope and Swift and the publication of "Pamela" and "Tom Jones", ...
This anthology of women's poetry, which contains verse by over 100 writers, attempts to determine what kinds and classes of women wrote in the 18th century, what kind of verse predominated and how it was received by men and the public at large.
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