Had I been born a hero
Helen Deutsch: Female poets of the eighteenth century, 21 September 2006
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre
by Paula Backscheider.
Johns Hopkins, 514 pp., £43.50, January 2006,0 8018 8169 2 Show More
by Paula Backscheider.
Johns Hopkins, 514 pp., £43.50, January 2006,
“... Dressing Room’, has his speaker remark: ‘Should I the Queen of Love refuse,/Because she rose from stinking Ooze?’ Or even Samuel Johnson. If women’s writing were taken into account, would it change the way we read and judge the poetry of an era long assumed to be magisterially Augustan and masculine? In her passionate and wide-ranging study of ... ”