English 331:
British Women Poets of theRomantic Period
Stephen Behrendt
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Literary history has not always remembered that there were many active women poets during the Romantic period in Great Britain, a period that has traditionally been defined in terms of about half a dozen male poets. Some of these women were well known, prolific writers. Many of them were acquaintances, friends, colleagues – or competitors – of the familiar “Big Six” male poets. And some of them had huge readerships – numbers that rivaled (or exceeded) those of Lord Byron and Walter Scott, the literary “superstars” of the day! Why, then, did they seemingly vanish from British literary history after the 1830s?
Required Texts:
British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. Ed. Paula R. Feldman
Additional texts will be found on line on Canvas