{"product_id":"the-poetry-of-american-women-emily-stipes-watts-9780292764507","title":"The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerican women have created an especially vigorous and innovative poetry, beginning in 1632 when Anne Bradstreet set aside her needle and picked up her \"poet's pen.\" The topics of American women poets have been various, their images their own, and their modes of expression original.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmily Stipes Watts does not imply that the work of American men and that of American women are two different kinds of poetry, although they have been treated as such in the past. It is her aim, rather, to delineate and define the poetic tradition of women as crucial to the understanding of American poetry as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy 1850, American women of all colors, religions, and social classes were writing and publishing poetry. Within the critical category of \"female poetry,\" developed from 1800 to 1850, these women experimented boldly and prepared the way for the achievement of such women as Emily Dickinson in the second half of the nineteenth century. Indeed at times-for example from 1860 through 1910-it was women who were at the outer edge of prosodic experimentation and innovation in American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving chronologically, Professor Watts broadly characterizes the state of American poetry for each period, citing the dominant male poets; she then focuses on women contemporaries, singling out and analyzing their best work. This volume not only brings to light several important women poets but also represents the discovery of a tradition of women writers. This is a unique and invaluable contribution to the history of American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Stipes Watts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292764502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292764507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d","brand":"Emily Stipes Watts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46489208160511,"sku":"9780292764507","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39263b1c-2917-42ea-94c7-5b554644466c.jpg?v=1736952894","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-poetry-of-american-women-emily-stipes-watts-9780292764507","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}