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Admired And Understood: The Poetry Of Aphra Behn, M. Stapleton
Admired And Understood: The Poetry Of Aphra Behn, M. Stapleton
M. L. Stapleton
Admired and Understood analyzes Behn's only pure verse collection, Poems upon Several Occasions (1684), and situates her in her literary milieu as a poet. Behn's book demonstrates her desire for acceptance in her literary culture, to be "admired and understood," as she puts its, the antitheses of what many surmise from reading her other works--that she saw herself primarily as a guerilla critic of her culture's views on race, class, and gender. The introduction to Admired and Understood argues that her colleagues thought of her as poet first, rather than as a dramatist, reviews current criticism about Behn, and provides …
Rump: Or An Exact Collection: An Electronic Edition., Mark Mcdayter
Rump: Or An Exact Collection: An Electronic Edition., Mark Mcdayter
Mark McDayter
A digital edition of the two-volume miscellany *Rump: Or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the Late Times* (1662), and related works, this resource will ultimately provide access to all available 17th-century versions of the 209 poems in the 1662 volumes, as well as a rich array of contextual information that will permit each version to be read in the context of its original historical context.