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Women Poets

Coursepack featuring examples of poetry written by women from the 17th-19th century.

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"Old Age" by Bradstreet, AnneSource: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning (Boston: John Foster, 1678)
"The Prologue" by Bradstreet, AnneSource: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning (Boston: John Foster, 1678)
"To the Ladies" by Chudleigh, MarySource: Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple-Gates, 1722)
"To the Nightingale" by Finch, AnneSource: Poems on Several Occasions... (: Written by the Right Honourable Anne, countess of Winchelsea., )
"Against Pleasure" by Philips, KatherineSource: Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orindato which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, tragedies; with several other translations out of French (London: Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, 1667)
"NIOBE in Distress for her Children slain by APOLLO, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book VI. and from a view of the Painting of Mr. Richard Wilson" by Wheatley, PhillisSource: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, 1773)
"Childhood" by Bradstreet, AnneSource: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning (Boston: John Foster, 1678)

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, 1Ah me! conceiv'd in sin, and born in sorrow,2A nothing, here to day, but gone to morrow.3Whose mean beginning, blushing cann't reveale,4But night and darkenesse, must with shame conceal.5My mothers breeding sicknessbreedingbreedingBreeding sickness is referring to her pregnancy. Source: Oxford English Dictionary, I will spare;
"On IMAGINATION" by Wheatley, PhillisSource: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, 1773)

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