The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/1998
This authoritative edition, edited by Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant, is useful for scholars and 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.
These poems not only help to define Finch's stature as a poet, but also provide a valuable perspective on the politics of the early woman writer.
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