American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century
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Release Date:01 Jun 1992
ISBN:9780813517919
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American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Cheryl Walker
Rutgers University Press
This publication marks the first time in a hundred years that a wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry has been accessible to the general public in a single volume. Included are the humorous parodies of Phoebe Cary and Mary Weston Fordham and the stirring abolitionist poems of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Harper, Maria Lowell, and Rose Terry Cooke. Included, too, are haunting reflections on madness, drug use, and suicide of women whose lives, as Cheryl Walker explains, were often as melodramatic as the poems they composed and published. In addition to works by more than two dozen poets, the anthology includes ample headnotes about each author's life and a brief critical evaluation of her work. Walker's introduction to the volume provides valuable contextual material to help readers understand the cultural background, economic necessities, literary conventions, and personal dynamics that governed women's poetic production in the nineteenth century.
An unprecedented effort to remedy the erasure of a century of women's poetry, and its publication should be an occasion for exultation. Legacy

Cheryl Walker is Richard Armour Professor of English at Scripps College. Her first book, The Nightingale’s Burden: Women Poets and American Culture Before 1900, won a Choice Magazine Award in 1983.

Introduction
Selected Bibliography
A Note on the Texts

Contents:
The Ideal by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
The Ideal Found by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
Lines; On An Incident Obseved From The Deck Of A Steamboat by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
Lines; To One Who Wished To Read A Poem I Had Written by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
Love by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
Milton by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
Tarpeia by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
To An Astronomer by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
The Wounded Vulture by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
Canto 2. Death Of Altheetor by Maria Gowen Brooks
Canto 6. Bridal Of Helon by Maria Gowen Brooks
Abraham Lincoln by Alice Cary
The Bridal Veil by Alice Cary
Contradiction by Alice Cary
Fame by Alice Cary
Growing Rich by Alice Cary
How And Where? by Alice Cary
Life by Alice Cary
Life's Mystery by Alice Cary
My Creed by Alice Cary
Pictures Of Memory by Alice Cary
To Solitude by Alice Cary
The Washerwoman by Alice Cary
The West Country by Alice Cary
Do You Blame Her? by Phoebe Cary
Dorothy's Dower by Phoebe Cary
Drawing Water by Phoebe Cary
John Greenleaf Whittier by Phoebe Cary
The Old Man's Darling by Phoebe Cary
Our Good President by Phoebe Cary
Peace by Phoebe Cary
The Spiritual Body by Phoebe Cary
Was He Henpecked? by Phoebe Cary
After The Camanches by Rose Terry Cooke
Bluebeard's Closet by Rose Terry Cooke
Captive by Rose Terry Cooke
An End by Rose Terry Cooke
Fantasia by Rose Terry Cooke
The Iconoclast by Rose Terry Cooke
In The Hammock by Rose Terry Cooke
La Coquette by Rose Terry Cooke
Monotropa by Rose Terry Cooke
'non Fit' by Rose Terry Cooke
Sanson Agonistes by Rose Terry Cooke
Semele by Rose Terry Cooke
The Squire's Boar Hunt by Rose Terry Cooke
A Story by Rose Terry Cooke
The Captive Of The White City by Ina Donna Coolbrith
Helen Hunt Jackson (h.h.) by Ina Donna Coolbrith
I Cannot Count My Life As A Loss by Ina Donna Coolbrith
The Mariposa Lily by Ina Donna Coolbrith
San Francisco; April 18, 1906 by Ina Donna Coolbrith
When The Grass Shall Cover Me by Ina Donna Coolbrith
Withheld by Ina Donna Coolbrith
An Acrostic: The Moon by Lucretia Maria Davidson
An Acrostic: The Sun by Lucretia Maria Davidson
America by Lucretia Maria Davidson
Auction Extraordinary by Lucretia Maria Davidson
Byron by Lucretia Maria Davidson
The Fear Of Madness; Fragment by Lucretia Maria Davidson
Headache by Lucretia Maria Davidson
Lines; Written After The Promise Of A Reward by Lucretia Maria Davidson
Sabrina by Lucretia Maria Davidson
Shakespeare by Lucretia Maria Davidson
To My Friend And Patron, M. K. Esq. by Lucretia Maria Davidson
To The Vermont Cadets by Lucretia Maria Davidson
The Yellow Fever by Lucretia Maria Davidson
The Consumptive by Emma Catherine (manly) Embury
The Garden by Emma Catherine (manly) Embury
Lament (of One Of The Old Regime) by Emma Catherine (manly) Embury
Lines by Emma Catherine (manly) Embury
Madame De Stael by Emma Catherine (manly) Embury
Stanzas; Addressed To A Friend On Her Marriage by Emma Catherine (manly) Embury
Stanzas; Written After The Second Reading Of 'corinna' by Emma Catherine (manly) Embury
To My First-born by Emma Catherine (manly) Embury
Alaska by Mary Weston Fordham
The Cherokee by Mary Weston Fordham
Chicago Exposition Ode by Mary Weston Fordham
The Coming Woman by Mary Weston Fordham
On Parting With A Friend by Mary Weston Fordham
The Pen by Mary Weston Fordham
The Saxon Legend Of Language by Mary Weston Fordham
The Snowdrop by Mary Weston Fordham
To The Mock-bird by Mary Weston Fordham
The Washerwoman by Mary Weston Fordham
Astraea by Louise Imogen Guiney
Borderlands by Louise Imogen Guiney
Emily Bronte by Louise Imogen Guiney
The Kings by Louise Imogen Guiney
The Knight Errant by Louise Imogen Guiney
Monochrome by Louise Imogen Guiney
Open, Time by Louise Imogen Guiney
Pascal by Louise Imogen Guiney
Planting The Poplar by Louise Imogen Guiney
Romans In Dorset; A.d. 1895 by Louise Imogen Guiney
Sanctuary by Louise Imogen Guiney
A Talisman by Louise Imogen Guiney
Tarpeia by Louise Imogen Guiney
W.h.; Ad. 1778-1830 by Louise Imogen Guiney
When On The Marge Of Evening by Louise Imogen Guiney
The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney
An Appeal To My Countrywomen by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The Artist by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Aunt Chloe's Politics by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Bury Me In A Free Land by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Deliverance by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
A Double Standard by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Let The Light Enter (the Dying Words Of Goethe) by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
President Lincoln's Proclamation Of Freedom by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The Ragged Stocking by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The Revel by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Vashti by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Battle Hymn Of The Republic by Julia Ward Howe
Kosmos by Julia Ward Howe
Middle Age by Julia Ward Howe
A New Sculptor by Julia Ward Howe
The Rough Sketch by Julia Ward Howe
' Save The Old South!' by Julia Ward Howe
The Soul-hunter by Julia Ward Howe
Spring-blossoms by Julia Ward Howe
The Tea-party by Julia Ward Howe
The Telegrams by Julia Ward Howe
A Thought For Washing Day by Julia Ward Howe
The Wedding by Julia Ward Howe
A Wild Night by Julia Ward Howe
Acquainted With Grief by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
Coronation by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
Covert by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
Danger by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
Esther by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
Found Frozen by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
Her Eyes by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
In Time Of Famine by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
Memoir Of A Queen by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
My New Friend by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
Poppies In The Wheat by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
The Prince Is Dead by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
Renunciation by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
Vashti by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
A Woman's Death-wound by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Jackson
Apple Dumplings; By Request by Mary Tucker Lambert
Lift Me Higher by Mary Tucker Lambert
The Opium-eater (after Taking A Dose) by Mary Tucker Lambert
The Opium-eater (before Taking A Dose) by Mary Tucker Lambert
Our City Rulers Pass In Grand Array by Mary Tucker Lambert
Revenge by Mary Tucker Lambert
Upon Receipt Of A Pound Of Coffee In 1863 by Mary Tucker Lambert
Wail Of The Divorced by Mary Tucker Lambert
Fern-life by Lucy Larcom
Getting Along by Lucy Larcom
A Loyal Woman's No by Lucy Larcom
November by Lucy Larcom
R.w.e. by Lucy Larcom
The Rose Enthroned by Lucy Larcom
They Said by Lucy Larcom
The True Witness by Lucy Larcom
Unwedded by Lucy Larcom
Weaving by Lucy Larcom
The Banner Of The Jew by Emma Lazarus
Critic And Poet by Emma Lazarus
The Crowing Of The Red Cock by Emma Lazarus
Echoes by Emma Lazarus
In The Jewish Synagogue At Newport by Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
The New Ezekiel by Emma Lazarus
Venus Of The Louvre by Emma Lazarus
Africa by Maria White Lowell
The Morning-glory by Maria White Lowell
An Opium Fantasy by Maria White Lowell
Rouen, Place De La Pucelle by Maria White Lowell
The Sick-room by Maria White Lowell
The Slave-mother by Maria White Lowell
Aspiration by Adah Isaacs Menken
Infelix by Adah Isaacs Menken
Judith by Adah Isaacs Menken
Ah! Woman Still by Frances Sargent Osgood
Caprice by Frances Sargent Osgood
The Child Playing With A Watch by Frances Sargent Osgood
The Cocoa-nut Tree by Frances Sargent Osgood
The Daisy's Mistake by Frances Sargent Osgood
Ellen Learning To Walk by Frances Sargent Osgood
The Exile's Lament by Frances Sargent Osgood
A Flight Of Fancy by Frances Sargent Osgood
Forgive And Forget by Frances Sargent Osgood
Had We But Met In Life's Delicious Spring by Frances Sargent Osgood
He Bade Me Be Happy by Frances Sargent Osgood
I Turned From The Monitor, Smiled At The Warning by Frances Sargent Osgood
A Mother's Prayer In Illness by Frances Sargent Osgood
New England's Mountain-child by Frances Sargent Osgood
On A Dead Poet by Frances Sargent Osgood
A Song by Frances Sargent Osgood
The Statue To Pygmalion by Frances Sargent Osgood
Woman; A Fragment by Frances Sargent Osgood
After The Storm by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Ambition by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Aspiration by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
At The Cascade by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Charity by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Full Vision by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
In Memoriam: Paul Laurence Dunbar by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Incompleteness by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Life by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Life's Boundary by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Lincoln by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Lost Opportunities by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Mignon by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
The Quest Of The Ideal by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
The Sculptor's Vision by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Self-mastery by Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Bargain by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Crows by Lizette Woodworth Reese
The Deserted House by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Doubt by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Heroism by Lizette Woodworth Reese
In Time Of Grief by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Keats (1) by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Rachel by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Renunciation by Lizette Woodworth Reese
A Rhyme Of Death's Inn by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Sunset by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Tears by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Telling The Bees (a Colonial Custom) by Lizette Woodworth Reese
To Life by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Truth by Lizette Woodworth Reese
Women by Lizette Woodworth Reese
The Bubble by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Christian Settlements In Africa by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Death Of A Young Lady; At The Retreat For The Insane by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Death Of An Infant by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Female Education; Addressed To A South American Poet by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Funeral Of Mazeen; The Last Of The ... Mohegan Nation by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Meeting Of The Susquehanna With The Lackawana by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
The Mother Of Washington by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
The Sick Child by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
The Stars by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
The Suttee by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
To A Shred Of Linen by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
To The First Slave Ship by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Atheism: Annihilation by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
Atheism: Faith by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
Atheism: Reason by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
The Bard by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
The Dream by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
An Incident by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
Inscription, Fr. The Sinless Child by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
Ode To Sappho by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
The Poet by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
Strength From The Hills by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
To The Hudson by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
The Unattained by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith
Alone by Celia Leighton Thaxter
Imprisoned by Celia Leighton Thaxter
Land-locked by Celia Leighton Thaxter
The Minute-guns by Celia Leighton Thaxter
Modjeska by Celia Leighton Thaxter
Submission by Celia Leighton Thaxter
Anima Urbis by Edith Matilda Thomas
Cure-all by Edith Matilda Thomas
The Deep-sea Pearl by Edith Matilda Thomas
The Etherial Hunger by Edith Matilda Thomas
Evoe! by Edith Matilda Thomas
Fabrique Of Things Spent by Edith Matilda Thomas
Faithful Over A Few Things by Edith Matilda Thomas
Frost To-night by Edith Matilda Thomas
The Good Furies by Edith Matilda Thomas
Insomnia by Edith Matilda Thomas
Lone Freedom by Edith Matilda Thomas
Losses by Edith Matilda Thomas
Poppies In Our Wheat by Edith Matilda Thomas
The Quiet Pilgrim by Edith Matilda Thomas
The Reflection by Edith Matilda Thomas
The Soul Of Things by Edith Matilda Thomas
The Morning-glory by Sarah Helen Power Whitman
A November Landsacpe by Sarah Helen Power Whitman
The Past by Sarah Helen Power Whitman
'a Pat Of Butter' by Sarah Helen Power Whitman
'the Raven' by Sarah Helen Power Whitman
Remembered Music by Sarah Helen Power Whitman
'Science' by Sarah Helen Power Whitman
To - by Sarah Helen Power Whitman
To E.o.s. by Sarah Helen Power Whitman
As By Fire by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Fable by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Friendship After Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Individuality by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Misalliance by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Tiger by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Twin-born by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Year Outgrows The Spring by Ella Wheeler Wilco
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