Sarah Fyge Egerton: Printed Writings, 1641–1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 2 (The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works ... Writings, 1641-1700: Series II, Part Four) - Softcover

Evans, Robert C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138378739 ISBN 13: 9781138378735

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668-1723) is an intriguing poet who wrote a great deal of poetry during a period when women poets were relatively rare. Her career also began at an astonishingly early age: she was barely fourteen years old when one of her poems was first printed in London. Throughout much of her life Egerton used poetry to share her thoughts, vent her feelings, and participate, to a highly unusual degree, in the public discourse of her times. The Female Advocate is perhaps her most famous single work. It was her very first publication and was printed three times in her own lifetime”in 1686, in a revised edition in 1687 and once more in 1707. The original 1686 edition is included in this volume along with the third edition of 1707, which is very rare. Alongside The Female Advocate in this volume is Egerton's Poems on Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral. This is a diverse volume with no obvious pattern or design but which includes many poems which display real talent and can express surprisingly assertive or unexpected views, suggesting the volume deserves far more analytical attention than it has yet received.

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Robert C. Evans is Distinguished Teaching and Research Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University, Montgomery, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1138378739
• ISBN 13: 9781138378735
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240