"My Rare Wit Killing Sin" – Poems of a Restoration Courtier

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

AvAnne Killigrew,Margaret J. M. Ezell,Margaret J. M. Ezell

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This is the first modern edition of verse by Anne Killigrew, a poet and portrait painter born in 1660 at the very start of the Restoration, who grew up as part of the complicated political, religious, and artistic worlds of the Restoration courts of Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York. Killigrew never chose to print her verses, but instead participated in a literary circulation network including family, friends, and members of the court; her position in relation to court culture and her family’s involvement with the London commercial stage gave her a unique perspective into the issues confronting a young single woman in a period during which libertinism was the dominant ethos of the courtiers. This edition lightly modernizes the spelling and punctuation of the posthumous volume of her collected verse, provides notes identifying the classical and biblical allusions which shape her works, and provides a historical context for her literary and artistic career in the introduction.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-12-01
Mått150 x 250 x 11 mm
Vikt306 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor166
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9780772721525

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Margaret J. M. Ezell is Distinguished Professor of English and holder of the John and Sara Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. She is the author of The Patriarch’s Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family (1987), Writing Women’s Literary History (1993), and Social Authorship and the Advent of Print (1999), as well as numerous articles and chapters investigating the social circulation of handwritten texts.

Illustrations xiAbbreviations xiiiAcknowledgments xvINTRODUCTION 1POEMS BY ANNE KILLIGREW 43APPENDIX 1: Poems about Anne Killigrew 96APPENDIX 2: Poems by others printed at the end of Killigrew’s Poems but not by her 113APPENDIX 3: Poems on the death of Killigrew’s aunt, Anne Killigrew Kirke (1607–1641) 123APPENDIX 4: A Sample of Contemporary Restoration Male Courtier Poems 130Bibliography 143Index of First Lines of Poems 151Index 153