The specially commissioned essays in Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 address the multiplicity of female poetic practice and the public image of the woman poet between the Restoration and mid-eighteenth century. The volume includes biographically informative accounts of individual poets alongside detailed essays which discuss the different contexts and poetic traditions shaping women's poetry in this key period in literary history. Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 draws together a wealth of recent scholarship from a strong cast of contributors (including Germaine Greer) into one accessible volume aimed at both students and specialist readers.

MARGARET J.M. EZELL John Paul Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University, USA GERMAINE GREER Professor of Literature at the University of Warwick CLAUDIA THOMAS KAIROFF Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, USA JENNIFER KEITH Teaches at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA KATHRYN R. KING Teaches English at the University of Montevallo in Alabama, USA DONNA LANDRY Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA and Honorary Research Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, UK REBECCA M. MILLS English teacher for Durant Senior High School and an adjunct instructor at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida, USA SARAH PRESCOTT Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK VALERIE RUMBOLD Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham, UK DAVID E. SHUTTLETON Teaches Literature, Theory and Film in the English Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK JANE SPENCER Reader in English Literature at the University of Exeter, UK CAROL SHINER WILSON Dean of the College for Academic Life and Assistant Professor of Humanities at Muhlenberg College S.J. WISEMAN Teaches in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London