| Description |
247 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-238) and index. |
| Contents |
The middle-aged poetess presents herself -- "A fancy strong may do the feat": The structure of poems upon several occasions -- Notions of the lyric and pindaric: the debt to Cowley -- The debt to Daphnis: Theocritus, Horace, Lucretius -- Behn's godlike Rochester and Libertinism -- The Juniper-Tree in Behn's Pastoral World -- "Swoln to luxurious heights": a voyage to the isle of love. |
| Subject |
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 -- Poetic works.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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| ISBN |
0874138493 alkaline paper |
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