Forms of engagement : women, poetry and culture 1640-1680 / Elizabeth Scott-Baumann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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'Forms of Engagement' sheds light on questions of poetic form in women's poetry. It traces the influences on the work of Lucy Hutchinson, Katherine Philips, and Margaret Cavendish, allowing readers to understand better both how women composed their poems and how they engaged with their contemporaries.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction: Reading, Gender, and Form -- 1. Margaret Cavendish: Nature and Originality -- 2. Margaret Cavendish as Editor and Reviser -- 3. Katherine Philips and Abraham Cowley: Solitude, Dialogue, and the Ode -- 4. Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson Reading John Donne -- 5. Lucy Hutchinson�s Elegies, the Country-House Poem, and Female Complaint -- 6. Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible, and Order and Disorder -- Afterword: Untracked Paths -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E

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