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Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist. Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement. [1] [2] This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry.
The poem makes use of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references. Poe stated that he composed the poem in a logical and methodical manner, aiming to craft a piece that would resonate with both critical and popular audiences, as he elaborated in his follow-up essay in 1846, "The Philosophy of Composition".
The two best known examples are "A Letter to the Women of England" (1798) and "The Natural Daughter" (1799). Both her works are dealing with the role of women during the Romantic Era. Mary Robinson as much as Mary Wollenstonecraft tried to put the focus on how inferior women were treated in comparison to men.
Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet, best remembered for her novel Wuthering Heights; Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist; Eliza Cook (1818–1889), English poet; Elizabeth Jessup Eames (1813–1856), American writer of prose and poetry; George Eliot (born Marian Evans, 1819–1880), English novelist and poet
Other anthologies created new canons of women's writing from the past, such as Black sister: poetry by black American women, 1746-1980 (1981) edited by Erlene Stetson; or Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940 (1987) edited by Paula Rabinowitz and Charlotte Nekola. Such anthologies "established solid ground for the ...
Perrault's French fairy tales, for example, were collected more than a century before the Grimms' and provide a more complex view of womanhood. But as the most popular, and the most riffed-on, the Grimms' are worth analyzing, especially because today's women writers are directly confronting the stifling brand of femininity they proliferated.
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (née Kingsmill; April 1661 – 5 August 1720), was an English poet and courtier.Finch wrote in many genres and on many topics - including fables, odes, songs, and religious verse - which are informed by "political ideology, religious orientation, and aesthetic sensibility". [1]
Portrait of Lady Mary Wroth. Lady Mary Wroth (née Sidney; 18 October 1587 [1] – 1651/3) was an English noblewoman and a poet of the English Renaissance.A member of a distinguished literary family, Lady Wroth was among the first female English writers to have achieved an enduring reputation.