Poetry lovers will delight in this hugely enjoyable and enlightening collection of such poems beginning in the age of Chaucer and ending in the present day. A valuable contribution to literary, gender and performance studies.
An anthology of poems written by men speaking as women, and by women as men, covering 5 centuries of verse from the Wife of Bath to today. Includes Chaucer, Raleigh, Dryden, Pope, Blake, Burns, Schott, Wordsworth, Bronte, Barret Browning,Rosetti, Tennyson, Kipling, Hardy, Frost, Stevens, Yeats, Hughes...