The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition [Hardcover]

Anne Finch (Author), Barbara McGovern (Editor), Charles H. Hinnant (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1998

The publication of the Wellesley manuscript marks the first complete edition of fifty-three poems by the most talented and significant woman poet of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Anne Finch (1661-1720) wrote most of these poems in the last decade of her life, and they are essential to a complete evaluation of her work.

This authoritative edition, edited by Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant, is useful for scholars as well as general readers of eighteenth-century poetry and women's literature. It contains textual notes, commentary, and an introduction that examines many of the issues relevant to Finch's poetry, including political climate, literary milieu, personal circumstances, and gender awareness. The editors also discuss Finch's devotional verse and her poetry in praise of female friendship, offering new insight into her attitudes toward these themes.

These poems were not published during Finch's lifetime nor in a posthumous collection and subsequently fell into obscurity until the manuscript resurfaced in the twentieth century. McGovern and Hinnant suggest that this had to do with the dangerous political environment in England, particularly following the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.

Not only do these poems help to define Finch's stature as a poet, they also provide a valuable perspective on the politics of the early woman writer.

Editorial Reviews

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A Act Of Contrition
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After Drawing A Twelf Cake At The Hon. Mrs Thynne's
The Agreeable
The Agreeable: In An Answer To The Foregoing Letter, By Ardelia
An Apology For My Fearfull Temper In A Letter In Burlesque Upon The...
An Aspiration
At First Waking
A Ballad To Mrs. Catherine Fleming In London
A Contemplation
An Epistle To Mrs Catherine Fleming At Coleshill In .....
The Following Poem Is Taken From The Epistle For The Monday Before
From St Austin's Manual English'd By Roger's Chapter .....
The Happynesse Of A Departed Soul
An Hymn Of Thanksgiving After A Dangerous Fit Of Sickness In The ...
In Answer To Mr. Pope
The Last Chapter Of Eclesiates Paraphras'd: Inscribed To Mrs. Cather..
The Lawrell
A Letter From S A.f. To Ardelia
A Letter To Mrs Arrabella Marow
A Letter To The Hon: Lady Worseley At Long-leat Lewston ....
Mary Magdalen At Our Saviour's Tomb: A Fragment
The Misantrope
Moderation Or The Wolves And The Sheep: A Fable
No Grace
Occasion'd By The Death Of Collonel Baggot, Who Had Been Groom Of ...
An Ode Written Upon Christmasse Eve In The Year 1714 .......
On Lady Cartret Drest Like A Shepherdess At Count Volira's Ball
On My Being Charged With Writing A Lampoon At Tunbridge
On The Death Of The Queen
On These Words-for As Much As Ye Did It Unto The Least Of These ....
On These Words: Thou Hast Hedg'd In My Way With Thorns
Over The Picture Of Major Pownoll
A Prayer For Salvation
The Puggs: A Dialogue Between An Old And Young Dutch Mastiff
Sir Plausible
A Suplication For The Joys Of Heaven
A Tale
These Verses Were Inserted In A Letter To The Right Hon. The Lady ...
To A Lady Who Having Desired Me To Compose Something Upon The.....
To Flavia, By Whose Perswasion, I Undertook The Following Paraphrase
To His Excellency The Lord Cartret At Stockholm .....
To The Hon. Mrs. H---n
To The Lord March Upon The Death Of His Sparrow
To The Rev. Mr. Bedford
To The Right Hon. Ann Countess Of Winchilsea: .. Rape Of The Lock
To The Right Hon: The Countess Of Winchilsea ... Catherine Fleming
To The Right Hon: The Lord Viscount Hatton
To The Right Hon: The Lord Viscount Hatton By Way Of Excuse ...
To The Right Honourable Frances Countess Of Hartford Who Engaged..
Under The Picture Of Marshall Turenne Taken From His Epitaph ...
Under The Picture Of Mr John Dryden
Under The Picture Of Sr George Rooke
Upon An Improbable Undertaking
Upon Lady Selena Shirly's Picture Drawn By Mr Dagar
The White Mouse's Petition To Lamira The Right Hon. The Lady Ann ...
Written After A Violent And Dangerous Fitt Of Sicknesse In The Year..
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Barbara McGovern is an associate professor of English at Ohio State University, Mansfield and the author of Anne Finch and Her Poetry (Georgia). Charles H. Hinnant is a professor of English at the University of Missouri and the author of The Poetry of Anne Finch.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press; Critical edition (September 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0820319953
• ISBN-13: 978-0820319957
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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