Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1400–1800: An Anthology

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Anthologies play an essential role in shaping literary history. This anthology reveals women's poetic activity and production across the three nations of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from 1400 to 1800, overturning the long-standing and widespread bias in favour of English writers that has historically shaped both scholarly and popular understanding of this period's female poetic canon. Prioritising texts that have never before been published or translated, readers are introduced to an extraordinary array of women's voices. From countesses to servant maids, from erotic verse to religious poetry, women's immense poetic output across four centuries, multiple vernaculars, and national traditions is richly demonstrated. Featuring translations and glosses of texts in Irish, Ulster Scots, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, alongside informative headnotes on each poet, this collection makes the work of women poets available like never before. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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List of Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Note of Sources and Copy Texts
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List of Abbreviations of Sources and Archives
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Introduction
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Part I - 1400–1660
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Section 1 - Ireland 1400–1660
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Section 2 - Scotland 1400–1660
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Section 3 - Wales 1400–1660
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Part II - 1660–1800
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Section 4 - Ireland 1660–1800
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Section 5 - Scotland 1660–1800
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Section 6 - Wales 1660–1800
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General Bibliography
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Bibliographies by Nation
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-xxi

List of Contributors
pp xxii-xxiv

Foreword
pp xxv-xxvi

Acknowledgements
pp xxvii-xxviii

Note of Sources and Copy Texts
pp xxix-xxxvii

List of Abbreviations of Sources and Archives
pp xxxviii-xliv

Introduction
pp 1-14

Part I - 1400–1660
pp 15-16

Section 1 - Ireland 1400–1660
pp 17-47

Section 2 - Scotland 1400–1660
pp 48-133

Section 3 - Wales 1400–1660
pp 134-192

Part II - 1660–1800
pp 193-194

Section 4 - Ireland 1660–1800
pp 195-349

Section 5 - Scotland 1660–1800
pp 350-560

Section 6 - Wales 1660–1800
pp 561-682

General Bibliography
pp 683-684

Bibliographies by Nation
pp 685-729

Index
pp 730-736

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