Women Romantic Poets - Volume 1

Sixty-nine poems by six of the most admired women Romantic writersa "e;English, Scottish, Irish, and American: Dorothy Wordsworth (William Wordsworths sister), Joanna Baillie, Eliza Townsend, Mary Tighe, Sara Coleridge (Samuel Taylor Coleridges daughter), and Caroline Bowles Southey. Each in her own way, they all broke with the poetic conventions of the past, writing in ordinary language about ordinary people, and approaching the traditional subjects of poetry with fresh eyes. Comedy and tragedy, love and hatred, life and death, oppression and freedoma "e;theyre all here.