Women Poets of the English Civil War.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Introduction -- Further reading -- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) -- From The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650) -- The Prologue -- From The Four Monarchies -- A Dialogue between Old England and New, Concerning their Present Troubles, Anno 1642 -- An Elegy upon that Honourable and Renowned Knight, Sir Philip Sidney, who was Untimely Slain at the Siege of Zutphen, Anno 1586 [1650] -- In Honour of Du Bartas, 1641 -- In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth, of Most Happy Memory -- David's Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan, 2 Samuel 1:19 -- From Several Poems (1678) -- An Elegy upon that Honourable and Renowned Knight, Sir Philip Sidney, who was Untimely Slain at the Siege of Zutphen, Anno 1586 [1678] -- The Flesh and the Spirit -- The Author to her Book -- A Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment -- Another ['As loving hind'] -- In Memory of my Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, who Deceased August 1605, Being a Year and Half Old -- Hester Pulter (c. 1605-1678) -- The Invitation into the Country, to my Dear Daughters, M.P., P.P., 1647, when his Sacred Majesty was at Unhappy Hour -- The Complaint of Thames, 1647, when the Best of Kings was Imprisoned by the Worst of Rebels at Holmby -- On Those Two Unparalleled Friends, Sir George Lisle and Sir Charles Lucas -- Upon the Death of my Dear and Lovely Daughter, J.P. -- On the Same ['Tell me no more'] -- Upon the Imprisonment of his Sacred Majesty, that Unparalleled Prince, King Charles the First -- On the Horrid Murder of that Incomparable Prince, King Charles the First -- On the Same ['Let none sigh more'] -- The Circle ['In sighs and tears there is no end'] -- 'Dear God turn not away thy face' -- The Circle ['Those that the hidden chemic art profess'].

On the King's Most Excellent Majesty -- To my Dear J.P., M.P., P.P., they Being at London, I at Broadfield -- A Solitary Complaint -- 'Must I thus ever interdicted be?' -- 'Why must I thus forever be confined' -- To Sir William Davenant, upon the Unspeakable Loss of the Most Conspicuous and Chief Ornament of his Frontispiece -- The Weeping Wish -- Emblem 4 -- Emblem 20 -- Emblem 22 -- Katherine Philips (1632-1664) -- From the 'Tutin' manuscript -- To my Dearest Antenor, on his Parting -- A Retired Friendship, to Ardelia, 23rd August 1651 -- Friendship's Mysteries, to my Dearest Lucasia -- Content, to my Dearest Lucasia -- Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal, to my Dearest Lucasia -- From the 'Tutin' manuscript, reverse -- The World -- The Soul -- Invitation to the Country -- On the 3rd September 1651 -- 2 Corinthians 5:19, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, 8th April 1653 -- From Poems (1664) -- Upon the Double Murder of King Charles I, in Answer to a Libellous Copy of Rhymes Made by Vavasor Powell -- On the Numerous Access of the English to Wait upon the King in Flanders -- Arion on a Dolphin, to his Majesty at his Passage into England -- On the Fair Weather Just at Coronation -- On the Death of the Queen of Bohemia -- To the Right Honourable Alice, Countess of Carbery, on her Enriching Wales with her Presence -- To Antenor, on a Paper of Mine which J. Jones Threatens to Publish to Prejudice him -- A Country Life -- Upon Mr Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode. -- From Poems (1667) -- Epitaph on her Son H.P. at St Sith's Church, where her Body also Lies Interred -- To my Antenor, March 16 1661/2 -- Orinda upon Little Hector Philips -- Margaret Cavendish (?1623-1673) -- From Philosophical Fancies (1653) -- Of Sense and Reason Exercised in their Different Shapes -- A Dialogue between the Body and the Mind -- An Elegy.

From Poems and Fancies (1664) -- The Poetress's Hasty Resolution -- A World Made by Atoms -- Of the Subtlety of Motion -- Of Vacuum -- Of Stars -- A World in an Earring -- The Purchase of Poets, or A Dialogue Betwixt the Poets, and Fame and Homer's Marriage -- A Dialogue betwixt Man and Nature -- A Dialogue between an Oak and a Man Cutting him Down -- A Dialogue between a Bountiful Knight and a Castle Ruined in War -- The Clasp -- The Hunting of the Hare -- A Description of an Island -- The Ruin of this Island -- Wherein Poetry Chiefly Consists -- A Description of a Shepherd's and Shepherdess's Life -- The Clasp: Of Fairies in the Brain -- Upon the Funeral of my Dear Brother, Killed in these Unhappy Wars -- Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681) -- From, De rerum natura -- Book 1, lines 1-152 -- Book 2, lines 1048-1180 -- Book 4, lines 1019-1321 -- From British Library, Additional MS 17018 -- To Mr Waller upon his Panegyric to the Lord Protector -- From Elegies -- 1. 'Leave off, you pitying friends, leave off ' -- 2. To the Sun Shining into her Chamber -- 2(a). 'Ah! Why doth death its latest stroke delay' -- 3. Another on the Sunshine -- 7. To the Garden at Owthorpe -- 10. The Recovery -- 12. Musings in my Evening Walks at Owthorpe -- 14. On the Spring, 1668 -- 20. 'You sons of England whose unquenched flame' -- From Order and Disorder -- Preface -- Canto 1, lines 1-150 -- Canto 3, lines 91-188 -- Canto 9, lines 1-122 -- From Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson -- 'All sorts of men through various labours press' -- Textual introduction -- Textual notes -- Index of first lines.

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