Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson

Margaret Homans

Published by Princeton University Press 1981

Women Writers and Poetic Identity

Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson

Margaret Homans

Volume 646 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400855445

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How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination? With this question Margaret Homans introduces her study of three nineteenth-century women poets and their response to a literary tradition that defines the poet as male. Her answer suggests why there were so few great women poets in an age when most of the great novelists were women.

Originally published in 1981.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER I. The Masculine Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
CHAPTER II. Dorothy Wordsworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
CHAPTER III. Emily Brontë Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
CHAPTER IV. Emily Dickinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
CONCLUSION. A Feminine Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
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