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Emilia Lanier (1569–1645), among first Englishwomen to publish a volume of original poems and seek patronage; Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641), English writer, teacher, and polemicist; Anne de Marquets (c. 1533–1588), French poet; Camille de Morel (1547–1611), French poet and writer; Isabella di Morra (c. 1520–1546), Italian poet of the ...
The poets represented in Poems by Eminent Ladies are diverse in terms of literary reputation and degree of critical and commercial success, literary school or style, and social, economic, and cultural background. Together, they help the editors make a case for including women writers in the national literary tradition: "The Ladies, whose pieces ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American poets. It includes poets that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female poets from the United States .
This is a list of feminist poets. 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.
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology is a poetry anthology edited by Roger Lonsdale and published in 1989 by the Oxford University Press.In the introduction, Lonsdale notes that while the featured writers may have flourished, to one degree or another, during the eighteenth century, by the time he came to collect their work, many of them had "disappeared from view."
New Poets, Women (1976) edited by Terry Wetherby; Contemporary Women Poets (1977) edited by Jennifer McDowell and Milton Leventhal; Open to Sun (1979) edited by Nora Jacquez Wieser; Lesbian Poetry (1982) edited by Elly Bulkin and Joan Larkin; Daughters of the Sun, Women of the Moon: Poetry by Black Canadian Women (1990) edited by Ann Wallace.
Davies won an Eric Gregory Award in 1983, [7] and was chairman of the Poetry Society in 1992-93. [2] She taught for 30 years at St Paul's Girls' School, being head of modern languages for 19 years, until taking early retirement in 2011 to spend more time on her poetry. [4] In 2012-2016 she held a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at King's College ...