Shakespeare's sisters : feminist essays on women poets

"... the best collection of feminist essays on women poets now available." —Spokeswoman Review "[The essays] form a satisfying whole, stunningly enlightening, important for literature and women’s studies.... " —Library Journal The essays in this landmark volume highlight the achievements of "Shakespeare’s sisters," including Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and others. Introduction: Gender, Creativity, And The Woman Poet / Sandra M. Gilbert And Susan Gubar -- 1. A Lonesome Glee -poets Before 1800: Jane Lead: Mysticism And The Woman Cloathed With The Sun / Catherine F. Smith -- Anne Bradstreet's Poetry: A Study Of Subversive Piety / Wendy Martin -- Anne Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea: An Augustan Woman Poet / Katharine Rogers -- 2. Titanic Opera -nineteenth-century Poets: This Changeful Life: Emily Brontë's Anti-romance / Nina Auerbach -- Working Into Light: Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Helen Cooper -- Christina Rossetti: The Inward Pose / Dolores Rosenblum -- Vesuvius At Home: The Power Of Emily Dickinson / Adrienne Rich -- Emily Dickinson And The Deerslayer: The Dilemma Of The Woman Poet In America / Albert Gelpi -- Armored Women, Naked Men: Dickinson, Whitman, And Their Successors / Terence Diggory -- 3. The Silver Reticence -modernists: The Art Of Silence And The Forms Of Women's Poetry / Jeanne Kammer -- Afro-american Women Poets: A Bio-critical Survey / Gloria T. Hull -- Edna St. Vincent Millay And The Language Of Vulnerability / Jane Stanbrough -- The Echoing Spell Of H.d.'s Trilogy / Susan Gubar -- 4. The Difference -made Me Bold -contemporary Poets: May Swenson And The Shapes Of Speculation / Alicia Ostriker -- Gwendolyn The Terrible: Propositions On Eleven Poems / Hortense J. Spillers -- A Fine, White Flying Myth: The Life/work Of Sylvia Plath / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Seeking The Exit Or The Home: Poetry And Salvation In The Career Of Anne Sexton / Suzanne Juhasz -- A Common Language: The American Woman Poet / Barbara Charelesworth Gelpi -- The Critique Of Consciousness And Myth In Levertov, Rich, And Rukeyser / Rachel Blau Duplessis. Edited, With An Introd. By Sandra M. Gilbert And Susan Gubar. Bibliography: P. 301-314.