Margaret J. M. Ezell is Distinguished Professor of English and holder of the John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. She is the author of The Patriarch’s Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family (1987), Writing Women’s Literary History (1993), and Social Authorship and the Advent of Print (1999), as well as numerous articles and chapters investigating the social circulation of handwritten texts.

"Reading this edition reminds me how excellent a poet Anne Killigrew was. Hers is a voice that is well worth hearing, and this edition presents it marvelously. It is unique on the market, for no other modernized edition of Killigrew’s poetry is currently available. The novice and scholarly reader alike will find this volume useful for understanding this poet and her age."

• Illustrations xiAbbreviations xiiiAcknowledgments xvINTRODUCTION 1POEMS BY ANNE KILLIGREW 43APPENDIX 1: Poems about Anne Killigrew 96APPENDIX 2: Poems by others printed at the end of Killigrew’s Poems but not by her 113APPENDIX 3: Poems on the death of Killigrew’s aunt, Anne Killigrew Kirke (1607–1641) 123APPENDIX 4: A Sample of Contemporary Restoration Male Courtier Poems 130Bibliography 143Index of First Lines of Poems 151Index 153

Margaret J. M. Ezell is Distinguished Professor of English and holder of the John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. She is the author of The Patriarch’s Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family (1987), Writing Women’s Literary History (1993), and Social Authorship and the Advent of Print (1999), as well as numerous articles and chapters investigating the social circulation of handwritten texts.

"Reading this edition reminds me how excellent a poet Anne Killigrew was. Hers is a voice that is well worth hearing, and this edition presents it marvelously. It is unique on the market, for no other modernized edition of Killigrew’s poetry is currently available. The novice and scholarly reader alike will find this volume useful for understanding this poet and her age."

• Illustrations xiAbbreviations xiiiAcknowledgments xvINTRODUCTION 1POEMS BY ANNE KILLIGREW 43APPENDIX 1: Poems about Anne Killigrew 96APPENDIX 2: Poems by others printed at the end of Killigrew’s Poems but not by her 113APPENDIX 3: Poems on the death of Killigrew’s aunt, Anne Killigrew Kirke (1607–1641) 123APPENDIX 4: A Sample of Contemporary Restoration Male Courtier Poems 130Bibliography 143Index of First Lines of Poems 151Index 153

Margaret J. M. Ezell is Distinguished Professor of English and holder of the John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. She is the author of The Patriarch’s Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family (1987), Writing Women’s Literary History (1993), and Social Authorship and the Advent of Print (1999), as well as numerous articles and chapters investigating the social circulation of handwritten texts.

"Reading this edition reminds me how excellent a poet Anne Killigrew was. Hers is a voice that is well worth hearing, and this edition presents it marvelously. It is unique on the market, for no other modernized edition of Killigrew’s poetry is currently available. The novice and scholarly reader alike will find this volume useful for understanding this poet and her age."

• Illustrations xiAbbreviations xiiiAcknowledgments xvINTRODUCTION 1POEMS BY ANNE KILLIGREW 43APPENDIX 1: Poems about Anne Killigrew 96APPENDIX 2: Poems by others printed at the end of Killigrew’s Poems but not by her 113APPENDIX 3: Poems on the death of Killigrew’s aunt, Anne Killigrew Kirke (1607–1641) 123APPENDIX 4: A Sample of Contemporary Restoration Male Courtier Poems 130Bibliography 143Index of First Lines of Poems 151Index 153