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17th- and 18th-Century Poems by Women

This class project is a collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century verse by women, focusing first on women as writers. It has been coordinated by the students' teacher, Tonya Howe. (0 hr 18 min)

Chapters

01 - 'The Prologue,' by Anne Bradstreet

2:41

02 - 'The Author to Her Book,' by Anne Bradstreet

2:01

03 - 'The Poetess's Hasty Resolution,' by Margaret Cavendish

1:26

04 - 'To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman,' by …

1:43

05 - 'The Disappointment,' by Aphra Behn

6:02

06 - 'To My Lord Colrane, In Answer to His Complemental Verses Sent Me Under th…

2:17

07 - 'The Rights of Woman,' by Anna Letitia Barbauld

2:06