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The first edition of the collected poetry and prose of the Restoration feminist, Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710), this volume includes The Ladies Defense as well as her final prose meditations. New biographical and bibliographical information in the Introduction revises the existing accounts of her life and literary career. The volume makes available for the first time the complete range of Chudleigh's literary experiments and calls for a reassessment of the image of the woman writer of the Restoration. A friend of John Dryden and Mary Astell, Chudleigh experimented with a variety of literary forms, from satire to biblical paraphrase, but always maintained her belief in the importance of education for women and the necessity for self-determination.
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. Previous owners name sticker to inside cover. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contents; Foreword. Introduction. The Ladies Defence: Or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd. Poems on Several Occasions. The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd. Essays Upon Several Subjects in Prose and Verse. Index of First Lines of Poems. 392 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Seller Inventory # 066251
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The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh (Women Writers in English, 1350-1850).
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Cloth. Condition: Sehr gut. 1st printing. xxxvi, 392 p. Das Exemplar ist in einem sehr guten und sauberen Zustand ohne Anstreichungen. The copy is in a very good and clean condition without markings. - INDEX OF FIRST LINES OF POEMS - Accept, my God, the Praises which I bring Accursed Pride taught Angels to rebel Ah! wretched Israel! all thy Beauty's fled! As vainly wishing, gazing, dying Ascend my Soul, and in a speedy Flight. - Cease, Dear Lerinda, cease admiring. Cease, fair Calistris, cease disdaining. Come, fair Astrea, let us for a while - Dear to the Gods Ambrosia prov'd - For what the World admires I'll wish no more Friendship is a Bliss Divine - Happy are they who when alone. He is the happy Man whose constant Mind. - I can this Canaan only view. If I'd a Fortune equal to my Mind I'le take my Leave of Business, Noise and Care - Let such as value Life be full of Fear. Love quickly would the World unite. - Me sacred Virtue moves alone Methinks I see the Golden Age agen. - No State of Life's from Troubles free. - O how ambitious is my Soul - O let us rather sink into the Earth - O my Lucinda! O my dearest Friend! - O Pollux, when thou next revisit'st Light, Our Days are crown'd with soft Delights. - Permit Marissa in an artless Lay Permit me at Your Royal Feet to lay - Pleasures, like Syrens, still invite. - Reproaches often useful prove - Sincerity's my chief Delight. Such only those Delights shall share. Such wondrous Friendship, wondrous Love - Tell me, Marissa, by what Rule That Bliss to which I longing haste That Day, when Clangors all Divine. The sacred Priest the sensless Mob obey'd The tow'ring self-sufficient Mind Then I no more shall grieve, no more complain They whose Fire does dimly shine Those who like me their Gratitude would show Thou matchless Poet, whose capacious Mind Thro' the pure Æther wing'd my way To your lov'd Bosom pleas'd Marissa flies 'Twould like the blest Millennium prove. - Virtue sure's th' only Treasure - Welcome, thou brave Defender of our Right What makes fond Man the trifle Life desire What, my Marissa, has Lucinda done When ancient Greece was for her Arts renown'd. When Daphne first her Shepherd saw, When Heav'n designs some wondrous Prince to raise Where are those sacred Lawrels now. Where new and brighter Objects I shall see Where Night her sable Wings shall ne'er display. Whilst Icarus his Wings prepar'd. Who on thy Holy Hill, my God, shall rest Why Damon, why, why, why so pressing? Wife and Servant are the same With as much Ease may Fire and Ice combine Would but indulgent Fortune send - Yes, dear Philistris, in my lov'd Retreat. ISBN 9780195078749 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 607. Seller Inventory # 1250247
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