Women Romantic Poets (Oxford World's Classics)

'Another May new buds and flowers shall bring;Ah! why has happiness&#8212no second Spring?'The period between 1780 and 1840 was a tremendously rich one for the production of poetry.Everyone from labourers to lords, milk-maids to marchionesses, read poetry and large numbers of people also wrote it.The daily newspapers and monthly periodicals, growing rapidly in readership and significance during this time, groaned under the weight of vast amounts of verse, and were often happy to usher relative unknowns into print.Women played an important role in this diverse and popular writing community&#8212some of the most prominent and popular poets of the period were women.But the "great forgetting" of the work of female poets that began in the Victorian period and continued until the emergence of feminist Romanticism in the 1990s, rendered Romantic women poets largely invisible for much of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.This new anthology places women in their rightful position at t