Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry

The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry is a poetry anthology edited by Fleur Adcock that was published in 1987 by Faber and Faber. Sixty-four writers born between 1869 (Charlotte Mew) and 1945 (Selima Hill) are represented. Adcock organizes the anthology chronologically according to the birth of each contributor.[1] The poets are mainly from the UK or the U.S.A., with several others from Australia (4), Canada (4), Ireland (2), and New Zealand (4), as may be discovered from the appended biographical sketches.[2] Two hundred and twenty-five (225) complete poems or excerpts of longer poems comprise the collection. In the introduction, Adcock argues that there is "no particular tradition" to distinguish women's poetry from that of men. She writes, "What is different about poetry by women, of course, is not its nature but the fact that until recently it has been undervalued and to some extent neglected."[3]

Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry
AuthorFleur Adcock
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry
PublisherFaber and Faber
Publication date
1987
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typeprint
Pagesxvii, 330 pages
ISBN0571136923
821/.91/0809287
LC ClassPR1177 .F34 1987

Poets included (in alphabetical order)

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Fleur AdcockMargaret AtwoodMargaret AvisonElizabeth BartlettPatricia BeerFrances BellerbyConnie BensleyMary Ursula BethellElizabeth BishopLouise BoganEavan BolandGwendolyn BrooksEiléan Ni ChuilleanáinAmy ClampittGillian ClarkeJane CooperWendy CopeFrances CornfordElizabeth DaryushRosemary DobsonFreda DownieLauris EdmondU. A. FanthorpeElaine FeinsteinTess GallagherLouise GlückBarbara GuestH. D.Gwen HarwoodSelima HillMolly HoldenRobin HydeElizabeth JenningsJune JordanJenny JosephMaxine KuminDenise LevertovGwendolyn MacEwenSandra McPhersonCharlotte MewJosephine MilesEdna St. Vincent MillayElma MitchellMarianne MooreLorine NiedeckerP. K. PageRuth PitterSylvia PlathAdrienne RichJudith RodriguezMuriel RukeyserCarol RumensE. J. ScovellEdith SitwellStevie SmithAnne StevensonMay SwensonAnne SzumigalskiJean ValentineEllen Bryant VoigtSylvia Townsend WarnerAnna WickhamJudith WrightElinor Wylie

Etext

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  • Adcock, Fleur, ed. Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry. London: Faber and Faber, 1987. (Open access to full text with free registration at the Internet Archive)

Notes

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  1. ^ Adcock, p. 9.
  2. ^ Adcock, pp. 305-313.
  3. ^ Adcock, p. 1.
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