The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English [Paperback]

Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor), Susan Gubar (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1996 | ISBN-10: 0393968251 | ISBN-13: 978-0393968255 | Edition: 2 Sub

This edition has been expanded to extend coverage of the Renaissance, the 17th and 18th centuries, and the 20th century. The text also contains 11 complete works such as "Oroonoko", "Jane Eyre", "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", "The Awakening" and Caryl Churchill's play, "Top Girls".

Editorial Reviews

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Against Coupling by Karen Fleur Adcock
For A Five-year Old by Karen Fleur Adcock
Miss Hamilton In London by Karen Fleur Adcock
On The Border by Karen Fleur Adcock
Street Song by Karen Fleur Adcock
The Voyage Out by Karen Fleur Adcock
Ambition by Mary Astell
Asparagus by Margaret Atwood
Marsh Languages by Margaret Atwood
Morning In The Burned House by Margaret Atwood
Spelling by Margaret Atwood
There Was Once by Margaret Atwood
This Is A Photograph Of Me by Margaret Atwood
Waiting by Margaret Atwood
The Rights Of Woman by Anna Letitia (aikin) Barbauld
Washing-day by Anna Letitia (aikin) Barbauld
Brunhild by Patricia Beer
The Bull by Patricia Beer
In Memory Of Constance Markiewicz by Patricia Beer
Mating Calls by Patricia Beer
Transvestism In The Novels Of Charlotte Bronte by Patricia Beer
Witch by Patricia Beer
The Disappointment by Aphra Behn
Love Armed by Aphra Behn
On Her Loving Two Equally by Aphra Behn
To The Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love To Me by Aphra Behn
The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn
Beasts Of The Chase by Juliana Berners
Beasts Of Venery by Juliana Berners
The Hare by Juliana Berners
More About The Hare by Juliana Berners
Not Here The Age Of A Hart by Juliana Berners
The Reward For The Hounds by Juliana Berners
Psalm 58: Si Vere Utique by Bible
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
In The Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop
Invitation To Miss Marianne Moore by Elizabeth Bishop
The Man-moth by Elizabeth Bishop
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
Pink Dog (rio De Janeiro) by Elizabeth Bishop
Roosters by Elizabeth Bishop
Cassandra by Louise Bogan
The Crossed Apple by Louise Bogan
The Crows by Louise Bogan
The Dream by Louise Bogan
Evening In The Sanitarium by Louise Bogan
Medusa by Louise Bogan
Several Voices Out Of A Cloud by Louise Bogan
Women by Louise Bogan
Anorexic by Eavan Boland
Degas's Laundresses by Eavan Boland
Domestic Interior: 6. The Muse Mother by Eavan Boland
In His Own Image by Eavan Boland
The Author To Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
For Deliverance From A Fever by Anne Bradstreet
In Honor Of That High And Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth by Anne Bradstreet
A Letter To Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment by Anne Bradstreet
Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet
The Tenth Muse: The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet
To Her Father With Some Verses by Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
Sonnets From A Lock Box: 14 by Anna Hempstead Branch
Sonnets From A Lock Box: 25 by Anna Hempstead Branch
Sonnets From A Lock Box: 31 by Anna Hempstead Branch
Stanzas by Charlotte Bronte
Ah! Why, Because The Dazzling Sun by Emily Jane Bronte
Alone I Sat -- The Summer Day by Emily Jane Bronte
A Day Dream by Emily Jane Bronte
F. De Samara To A.g.a. by Emily Jane Bronte
I Am The Only Being Whose Doom by Emily Jane Bronte
In Summer's Mellow Midnight by Emily Jane Bronte
No Coward Soul Is Mine by Emily Jane Bronte
The Prisoner (a Fragment) by Emily Jane Bronte
R. Alcona To J. Brenzaida by Emily Jane Bronte
Riches I Hold In Light Esteem by Emily Jane Bronte
Tell Me, Tell Me, Smiling Child by Emily Jane Bronte
3. by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks
Bronzeville Woman In A Red Hat by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Last Quatrain Of The Ballad Of Emmett Till by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Sundays Of Satin-legs Smith by Gwendolyn Brooks
Tinsel Marie; The Coora Flower by Gwendolyn Brooks
To The Diaspora: You Did Not Know You Were Afrika by Gwendolyn Brooks
We Real Cool; The Pool Players. Seven At The Golden Shovel by Gwendolyn Brooks
Aurora's Journey To England And Education There by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora's Parents by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora's Theories Of Poetry [or, Poets And The Present Age] by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Cry Of The Children by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Curse For A Nation: Prologue by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hiram Powers' Greek Slave by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mother And Poet; Turin, After The News From Gaeta, 1861 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Romney's Proposal Of Marriage To Aurora And Her Refusal by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Runaway Slave At Pilgrim's Point by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet To George Sand: 1. A Recognition by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet To George Sand: 2. A Desire by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 22 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 5 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A True Dream by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mariam's Fate by Elizabeth (tanfield) Cary
On The Duties Of A Wife by Elizabeth (tanfield) Cary
An Excuse For So Much Writ Upon My Verses by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
The Poetess's Hasty Resolution by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
Cannery Town In August by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes
For Virginia Chavez by Lorna Dee Cervantes
On Touring Her Hometown by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Y Volver by Lorna Dee Cervantes
To The Ladies by Mary Lee Chudleigh
Admonitions by Lucille Clifton
Anna Speaks Of The Childhood Of Mary Her Daughter by Lucille Clifton
The Astrologer Predicts At Mary's Birth by Lucille Clifton
Holy Night by Lucille Clifton
How Is He Coming Then by Lucille Clifton
If Our Grandchild Be A Girl by Lucille Clifton
Island Mary by Lucille Clifton
Mary's Dream by Lucille Clifton
Move by Lucille Clifton
My Dream About Being White by Lucille Clifton
A Song Of Mary by Lucille Clifton
The Devil's Funeral by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Doubt by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Marriage by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The Other Side Of A Mirror by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Regina by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The White Women by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The Witch by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
An Introduction by Kamala Das
After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes by Emily Dickinson
Art Thou The Thing I Wanted? by Emily Dickinson
Good Morning - Midnight by Emily Dickinson
His [or, Her] Losses Made Our Gains Ashamed by Emily Dickinson
I Dwell In Possibility by Emily Dickinson
I Felt A Funeral In My Brain by Emily Dickinson
I Reckon - When I Count At All by Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who Are You by Emily Dickinson
It Was Given To Me By The Gods by Emily Dickinson
A Loss Of Something Ever Felt I by Emily Dickinson
Mine By The Right Of The White Election by Emily Dickinson
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson
My Life Had Stood - A Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 103 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1072 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1138 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1317 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1445 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1651 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1657 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1670 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1705 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1732 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1737 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 211 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 271 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 303 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 312 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 322 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 327 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 365 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 384 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 401 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 441 by Emily Dickinson
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Poem: 508 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 520 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 579 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 593 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 642 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 669 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 670 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 712 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 732 by Emily Dickinson
Poem: 986 by Emily Dickinson
Publication Is The Auction by Emily Dickinson
She Dealt Her Pretty Words Like Blades by Emily Dickinson
The Soul Has Bandaged Moments by Emily Dickinson
A Still Volcano - Life by Emily Dickinson
Sweet Mountains - Ye Tell Me No Lie by Emily Dickinson
Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant by Emily Dickinson
There Is A Morn By Men Unseen by Emily Dickinson
There's A Certain Slant Of Light by Emily Dickinson
They Shut Me Up In Prose by Emily Dickinson
This Chasm, Sweet, Upon My Life by Emily Dickinson
Through The Dark Sod - As Education by Emily Dickinson
Why Make It Doubt - It Hurts So by Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
With Thee, In The Desert by Emily Dickinson
Eurydice by Hilda Doolittle
Fragment Thirty-six by Hilda Doolittle
Garden: 1 by Hilda Doolittle
Garden: 2 by Hilda Doolittle
Helen by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 1 by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 10 by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 11 by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 12 by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 2 by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 3 by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 4 by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 5 by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 6 by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 7 by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 8 by Hilda Doolittle
The Master: 9 by Hilda Doolittle
Orchard by Hilda Doolittle
Oread by Hilda Doolittle
Sea Poppies by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 1 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 10 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 11 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 12 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 13 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 14 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 2 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 24 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 25 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 26 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 27 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 28 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 29 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 3 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 35 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 36 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 37 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 38 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 39 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 40 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 41 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 42 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 43 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 8 by Hilda Doolittle
Tribute To The Angels: 9 by Hilda Doolittle
The House Slave by Rita Dove
Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
Sonnet In Primary Colors by Rita Dove
Wingfoot Lake by Rita Dove
I Sit And Sew by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-nelson
The Doubt Of Future Foes by Elizabeth I
On Monsieur's Departure by Elizabeth I
Brother And Sister by Mary Ann Evans
1. Mother-in-law by Ursala Fanthorpe
2. King's Daughter by Ursala Fanthorpe
After Visiting Hours by Ursala Fanthorpe
For Saint Peter by Ursala Fanthorpe
From The Third Storey by Ursala Fanthorpe
Women Laughing by Ursala Fanthorpe
Adam Posed by Anne Finch
The Apology by Anne Finch
The Circuit Of Apollo by Anne Finch
Friendship Between Ephelia And Ardelia by Anne Finch
In Answer To Mr. Pope by Anne Finch
The Introduction by Anne Finch
A Letter To Daphnis by Anne Finch
A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Finch
The Spleen; A Pindaric Poem by Anne Finch
To The Nightingale by Anne Finch
False Play by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
The Mother's Charge by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
She Walketh Veiled And Sleeping by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
Dedication To Hunger: 4. The Deviation by Louise Gluck
First Memory by Louise Gluck
The Gold Lily by Louise Gluck
Illuminations by Louise Gluck
Lullaby by Louise Gluck
Terminal Resemblance by Louise Gluck
Vespers (9) by Louise Gluck
Widows by Louise Gluck
Concerning The Right To Life by Jorie Graham
Orpheus And Eurydice by Jorie Graham
Almost Aubade by Marilyn Hacker
At Noon, An Orderly Wheeled Me Upstairs by Marilyn Hacker
Ballad Of Ladies Lost And Found by Marilyn Hacker
From Orient Point by Marilyn Hacker
It's Become A Form Of Gallows Humor by Marilyn Hacker
The Odd And Even Numbers Of The Street by Marilyn Hacker
Runaways Cafe: 1 by Marilyn Hacker
Runaways Cafe: 2 by Marilyn Hacker
You're Cured by Marilyn Hacker
Aunt Chloe's Politics by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Learning To Read by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The Slave Mother by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
The Tennessee Hero by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Vashti by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
In The Park by Gwen Harwood
Mid-channel by Gwen Harwood
Mother Who Gave Me Life by Gwen Harwood
The Sea Anemones by Gwen Harwood
To The Thrice-sacred Queen Elizabeth by Mary Sidney Herbert
The Avalanche by Linda Hogan
Bamboo by Linda Hogan
Germinal by Linda Hogan
The Hands by Linda Hogan
To My Lord Colrane; In Answer To His Complementary Verses by Anne Killigrew
Upon The Saying That My Verses Were Made By Another by Anne Killigrew
Pro Femina: Three by Carolyn Kizer
Semele Recycled by Carolyn Kizer
The Envelope by Maxine W. Kumin
How It Is by Maxine W. Kumin
Making The Jam Without You by Maxine W. Kumin
The Double Goer by Dilys Bennett Laing
Let Them Ask Their Husbands by Dilys Bennett Laing
Prayer Of An Ovulating Female by Dilys Bennett Laing
Sonnet To A Sister In Error by Dilys Bennett Laing
The Description Of Cooke-ham by Aemilia (bassano) Lanyer
Eve's Apology In Defense Of Women by Aemilia (bassano) Lanyer
Abel's Bride by Denise Levertov
The Ache Of Marriage by Denise Levertov
Ancient Airs And Dances by Denise Levertov
Cancion by Denise Levertov
Divorcing by Denise Levertov
The Dragonfly-mother by Denise Levertov
Dyptich by Denise Levertov
Eros At Temple Stream by Denise Levertov
Evening Train by Denise Levertov
The Goddess by Denise Levertov
Hypocrite Women by Denise Levertov
In Mind by Denise Levertov
The Mutes by Denise Levertov
The Son by Denise Levertov
Song For Ishtar by Denise Levertov
Stepping Westward by Denise Levertov
The Children's Letters by Dorothy Livesay
Eve by Dorothy Livesay
Green Rain by Dorothy Livesay
The Three Emilys by Dorothy Livesay
Coal by Audre Lorde
The Electric Slide Boogie by Audre Lorde
From The House Of Yemanja by Audre Lorde
Kitchen Linoleum by Audre Lorde
Now That I Am Forever With Child by Audre Lorde
On A Night Of The Full Moon by Audre Lorde
The Women Of Dan Dance With Swords In Their Hands ... by Audre Lorde
A Decade by Amy Lowell
The Expatriates by Amy Lowell
The Letter by Amy Lowell
Madonna Of The Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell
Opal by Amy Lowell
The Sisters by Amy Lowell
Summer Rain by Amy Lowell
Venus Transiens by Amy Lowell
The Weather-cock Points South by Amy Lowell
Nancy Cunard by Mina Loy
Omen Of Victory by Mina Loy
Photo After Pogrom by Mina Loy
Portrait Of A Nun by Mina Loy
Songge Byrd; For Isadora Duncan by Mina Loy
Three Moments In Paris: 1. One O'clock At Night by Mina Loy
The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew
The Quiet House by Charlotte Mew
A Father Of Women: Ad Sororem E. B. by Alice Meynell
Parentage by Alice Meynell
The Sunderland Children by Alice Meynell
An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Apostrophe To Man by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Buck In The Snow by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Courage That My Mother Had by Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Fitting by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rendezvous by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Second Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 121. Fatal Interview: 52 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 128 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 31 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 41 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 46. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 1 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 47. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 2 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 48. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 3 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 49. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 4 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 50. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 5 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 51. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 6 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 52. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 7 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 53. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 8 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 54. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 9 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 55. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 10 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 56. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 11 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 57. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 12 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 58. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 13 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 59. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 14 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 60. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 15 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 61. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 16 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 62. Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree: 17 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 67. To Inez Milholland by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 95. Fatal Interview: 26 by Edna St. Vincent Millay
An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle In The Shape Of A Fish by Marianne Moore
His Shield by Marianne Moore
The Jerboa by Marianne Moore
No Swan So Fine by Marianne Moore
O To Be A Dragon by Marianne Moore
The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore
Poetry (further Revised) by Marianne Moore
Sea Unicorns And Land Unicorns by Marianne Moore
Silence by Marianne Moore
Sojourn In The Whale by Marianne Moore
Those Various Scalpels by Marianne Moore
To A Snail by Marianne Moore
The Language Of The Brag by Sharon Olds
The Mortal One by Sharon Olds
Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Dorothy Parker
Charles Dickens by Dorothy Parker
D. G. Rossetti by Dorothy Parker
George Sand by Dorothy Parker
Harriet Beecher Stowe by Dorothy Parker
The Lives And Times Of Keats, Shelley, And Byron by Dorothy Parker
News Item by Dorothy Parker
One Perfect Rose by Dorothy Parker
Oscar Wilde by Dorothy Parker
Resume by Dorothy Parker
Thomas Carlyle by Dorothy Parker
Walter Savage Landor by Dorothy Parker
Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia by Katherine Philips
A Married State Affords But Little Ease by Katherine Philips
On The Death Of My First And Dearest Child by Katherine Philips
To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship by Katherine Philips
To Sir Amorous La Fool by Katherine Philips
The Irish Patriarch by Ruth Pitter
The Military Harpist by Ruth Pitter
Old Nelly's Birthday by Ruth Pitter
Yorkshire Wife's Saga by Ruth Pitter
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
The Arrival Of The Bee Box by Sylvia Plath
The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
The Disquieting Muses by Sylvia Plath
Edge by Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
Medusa by Sylvia Plath
Mirror by Sylvia Plath
Nick And The Candlestick by Sylvia Plath
Stings by Sylvia Plath
The Swarm by Sylvia Plath
Wintering by Sylvia Plath
Words by Sylvia Plath
You're by Sylvia Plath
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 1 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 10 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 11 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 12 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 13 (dedications) by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 2 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 3 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 4 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 5 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 6 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 7 (the Dream-site) by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 8 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
An Atlas Of The Difficult World: 9 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Diving Into The Wreck by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Final Notations by Adrienne Cecile Rich
'i Am In Danger - Sir - ' by Adrienne Cecile Rich
In Those Years by Adrienne Cecile Rich
The Loser by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Power by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Snapshots Of A Daughter-in-law by Adrienne Cecile Rich
To The Days by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Twenty-one Love Poems: 11 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Twenty-one Love Poems: 21 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Twenty-one Love Poems: The Floating Poem, Unnumbered by Adrienne Cecile Rich
January, 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson
London's Summer Morning by Mary Darby Robinson
To The Poet Coleridge by Mary Darby Robinson
After Death by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Cobwebs by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Convent Threshold by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Enrica, 1865 by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Eve by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Goblin Market by Christina Georgina Rossetti
In An Artist's Studio by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Shut Out by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Song (10) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Soul; A Study by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Symbols by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Triad by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Up-hill by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Venus's Looking-glass by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The World by Christina Georgina Rossetti
7 by Muriel Rukeyser
Along History by Muriel Rukeyser
The Birth Of Venus by Muriel Rukeyser
Boy With His Hair Cut Short by Muriel Rukeyser
Kathe Kollwitz by Muriel Rukeyser
More Of A Corpse Than A Woman by Muriel Rukeyser
Myth by Muriel Rukeyser
Night Feeding by Muriel Rukeyser
The Poem As Mask by Muriel Rukeyser
The Power Of Suicide by Muriel Rukeyser
Who In One Lifetime by Muriel Rukeyser
Letter From Chicago; To Virginia Woolf by Eleanor May Sarton
The Muse As Medusa by Eleanor May Sarton
My Sisters, O My Sister by Eleanor May Sarton
Consorting With Angels by Anne Sexton
Her Kind by Anne Sexton
Housewife by Anne Sexton
In Celebration Of My Uterus by Anne Sexton
The Moss Of His Skin by Anne Sexton
Somewhere In Africa by Anne Sexton
Sylvia's Death by Anne Sexton
Aubade by Edith Sitwell
En Famille by Edith Sitwell
Facade: 18 by Edith Sitwell
Lullaby by Edith Sitwell
Serenade: Any Man To Any Woman by Edith Sitwell
Song; To Alberto De Lacerda by Edith Sitwell
An Early Worshipper At Nature's Shrine by Charlotte (turner) Smith
Elegiac Sonnet: 44. Written In The Church Yard At Middleton In Sussex by Charlotte (turner) Smith
Imperial Lord Of The High Southern Coast by Charlotte (turner) Smith
Thirty Eight. Addressed To Mrs. H -- Y. by Charlotte (turner) Smith
Dear Female Heart by Florence Margaret Smith
How Cruel Is The Story Of Eve by Florence Margaret Smith
Human Affection by Florence Margaret Smith
Lighty Bound by Florence Margaret Smith
Lord Barrenstock by Florence Margaret Smith
Not Waving But Drowning by Florence Margaret Smith
Papa Love Baby by Florence Margaret Smith
Souvenir De Monsieur Poop by Florence Margaret Smith
This Englishwoman by Florence Margaret Smith
The Wanderer by Florence Margaret Smith
Frameless Windows, Squared Of Light by Cathy Song
Heaven by Cathy Song
The Youngest Daughter by Cathy Song
Innocence by Anne Spencer
Lady, Lady by Anne Spencer
Letter To My Sister by Anne Spencer
White Things by Anne Spencer
In An Iridescent Time by Ruth Stone
Names by Ruth Stone
Periphery by Ruth Stone
Second-hand Coat by Ruth Stone
The Song Of Absinthe Granny by Ruth Stone
Things I Say To Myself While Hanging Laundry by Ruth Stone
Bleeding by May Swenson
Women by May Swenson
Blue Horses Rush In by Luci Tapahonso
Leda And The Cowboy by Luci Tapahonso
Blue Monday by Diane Wakoski
Medea The Sorceress by Diane Wakoski
The Mirror Of A Day Chiming Marigold by Diane Wakoski
My Trouble by Diane Wakoski
The Photos by Diane Wakoski
Ringless by Diane Wakoski
Dark Blood by Margaret Abigail Walker
Lineage by Margaret Abigail Walker
Molly Means by Margaret Abigail Walker
Whores by Margaret Abigail Walker
His Excellency General Washington by Phillis Wheatley
To S.m., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works by Phillis Wheatley
To The Right Hon! William Earl Of Dartmouth by Phillis Wheatley
The Author Maketh Her Will & Testament: A Communication ... by Isabella Whitney
The Author Maketh Her Will & Testament: The Manner Of ... by Isabella Whitney
The Affinity by Anna Wickham
Dedication Of The Cook by Anna Wickham
Divorce by Anna Wickham
Meditation At Kew by Anna Wickham
Grasmere - A Fragment by Dorothy Wordsworth
An Answer To A Love-letter In Verse by Mary Wortley Montagu
Epistle From Mrs. Yonge To Her Husband by Mary Wortley Montagu
Epitaph by Mary Wortley Montagu
Six Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-pox by Mary Wortley Montagu
Verses Addressed To Imitator Of First Satire Of Horace by Mary Wortley Montagu
Counting In Sevens by Judith Wright
Eve To Her Daughters by Judith Wright
Half-caste Girl by Judith Wright
Ishtar by Judith Wright
Naked Girl And Mirror by Judith Wright
Request To A Year by Judith Wright
'rosina Alcona To Julius Brenzaida' by Judith Wright
The Sisters by Judith Wright
Some Words by Judith Wright
To Another Housewife by Judith Wright
A Crown Of Sonnets Dedicated To Love: 1 by Mary Sidney Wroth
A Crown Of Sonnets Dedicated To Love: 13 by Mary Sidney Wroth
A Crown Of Sonnets Dedicated To Love: 2 by Mary Sidney Wroth
A Crown Of Sonnets Dedicated To Love: 3 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 1 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 103 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 11 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 24 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 25 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 43 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 64 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 8 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 91. Song by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 96 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Atavism by Elinor Wylie
The Eagle And The Mole by Elinor Wylie
Full Moon by Elinor Wylie
Let No Charitable Hope by Elinor Wylie
One Person: 12 by Elinor Wylie
Sonnets: Pastiche by Elinor Wylie
To A Lady's Countenance by Elinor Wylie
Wild Peaches by Elinor Wylie
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Sandra M. Gilbert is the author of numerous volumes of criticism and poetry, as well as a memoir. She is coeditor (with Susan Gubar) of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. A Distinguished Professor of English emerita at the University of California, Davis, she lives in Berkeley, California.

Susan Gubar is the coauthor of The Madwoman in the Attic, a foundational work of feminist criticism, and the coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 2452 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 2 Sub edition (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393968251
• ISBN-13: 978-0393968255
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.7 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #364,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At Last!, June 29, 2002

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R. Tiedemann "Sunnye" (Bellevue, NE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English (Paperback)

The female literary tradition, long neglected, emerges as one that has not only developed concurrently with, but has also influenced male literati. In this large and fascinating volume we meet the minds that analyzed and chronicled the lives these women lived and observed.

One might argue about the selections included and excluded here. Pearl Buck, the only woman to win both a Nobel Prize (1938) and a Pulitzer (1932) is excluded.

The book is divided into 6 eras, each with a lengthy "period introduction" giving historical and thematic backgrounds for the works included in that section.

From the five earliest women writers (dating from 700 to 1600), women began to shape and define their literary voices. England's first professional woman writer, Aphra Behn, whose literary career began in 1670, is the writer who women must honor above all others. According to Virginia Woolf, "it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."

Here the reader will find rare works such as Jane Austen's "Love and Friendship" and George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil." Three notable novels are included in their entirety: JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte, THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin, and THE BLUEST EYE by Toni Morrison.

Poems, stories, memoirs, essays, plays, letters, novels -- all literary works originally composed in English -- over 150 authors decrying, exalting, agonizing over, and celebrating the things we all have in common: Life...love...and death.

This is a fascinating collection and one that will stand reading and re-reading over a long period of time.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books of all time, February 4, 2001

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"bibliophilegirl" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English (Paperback)

This anthology has been more relevant to me over the years since I've graduated from college (with a BA in English) than any of the others I own. For bibliophiles who have an interest in understanding the unique position women have had over the centuries in articulating their thoughts, lives, concerns, desires, etc., this anthology is a must. I am constantly pulling it from the shelf to look up the author bios, historical background information, etc. But more than that, I really enjoy returning to it to read favorite poems and short stories by the most celebrated women writers of all time. I have given this anthology as a gift and recommended it on numerous occasions to friends and acquaintances who are interested in further understanding women's history, literature, feminism, etc. I also have some of the literary criticism the editors have written (Madwomen in the Attic, others) and recommend those as well.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Plethora of Wonderful Works of Women, July 28, 2001

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Amber McCann "Future Author" (Modesto, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English (Paperback)

I first opened this book because of a Women's Lit class I took last year. Sure, I was excited, but I really did not expect to find it interesting. After all, the public school system only allows a few women writers to be taught: Mary Shelly, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Kate Chopin, and Emily Dickerson. But what about the many wonderful women writes who have not been taught at length? Anne Sexton, Toni Morrison, Elizabeth Bareet Browning, Christina Rosettie, Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, Anne Finch...the list is endless, literally. Every woman should own a copy of this book, regardless of whether you need it or not. It is time to spread the enormous talent of the world's best poets and authors. Many could not publish their works or gain the respect of their equally talented male writers, now it is time to give the Ladies all the credit they deserve.