![]() | Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte and Emily Dickinson Subjects: English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Women and literature; Wordsworth Dorothy 1771–1855 -- Poetic works; Brontë Emily Jane 1818–1848 -- Poetic works; Dickinson Emily 1830–; How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination? With this question Margaret Homans introduces her study of three nineteenth-century women poets and their response to a literary tradition that defines the poet as male. Her answer suggests why there were so few great women poets in an age when most of the great novelists were women. |
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