These poems succeed in making the Christian life of resignation and unselfishness into a series of heroic trials and combats. MA
has the makings of a fine poet in the grand style; she evidently learned...
Textual Features
Jane Barker
JB
writes to one male friend (my Adopted Brother) on his approaching marriage, not to congratulate but to dissuade.
Barker, Jane. Poetical Recreations. Benjamin Crayle, 1687.
11
She reflects her intimate knowledge of the work of Katherine Philips
and Abraham Cowley
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Her poetry as a whole is conspicuous for its versatility. Her major early influences (Katherine Philips
and Abraham Cowley
) were succeeded by Dryden
. (She always denied any influence from Pope
.) But...
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Anne Mozley
Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser
, Cowley
. . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes
and Miss Barrett
.
Wordsworth, John, Bishop of Salisbury, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, 1892, p. xii - xx.
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Katherine Philips
Mention on the title-page of her translations from French emphasizes her interest in French literary and musical culture.
Coolahan, Marie-Louise, and Gillian Wright. “Katherine Philips’s French Translations: Between Mediation and Appropriation”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
23
, No. 4, Nov. 2016, pp. 445-64.
445
In the wake of Marriott's edition, KP
had told Cotterell she had mixed feelings about his...