Women poets of the English Civil War

Sarah C. E. Ross is Associate Professor in English at Victoria University of WellingtonElizabeth Scott-Baumann is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at King's College London

Featuring modernised spelling and detailed explanatory notes, this anthology of Civil War-era women poets is perfect for students of English literature and early modern studies.

IntroductionAnne Bradstreetfrom The Tenth Muse (1650)The PrologueThe Four MonarchiesA Dialogue between Old England and NewAn Elegy upon that Honourable and Renowned Knight, Sir Philip Sidney (1650)In Honour of Du BartasIn Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ElizabethDavid's Lamentation for Saul and Jonathanfrom Several Poems (1678)An Elegy upon that Honourable and Renowned Knight, Sir Philip Sidney (1678)The Flesh and the SpiritThe Author to her BookA Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Public EmploymentAnotherIn Memory of my Dear Grandchild Elizabeth BradstreetHester PulterThe Invitation into the Country, to my Dear DaughtersThe Complaint of ThamesOn Those Two Unparalleled Friends, Sir George Lisle and Sir Charles LucasUpon the Death of my Dear and Lovely DaughterOn the Same [Tell me no more]Upon the Imprisonment of his Sacred Majesty, that Unparalleled Prince King Charles the FirstOn the Horrid Murder of that Incomparable Prince, King Charles the FirstOn the Same [Let none sigh more]The Circle [1]Dear God turn not away thy faceThe Circle [2]On the King's Most Excellent MajestyTo my Dear J.P., M.P., P.P, They Being at London, I at BroadfieldA Solitary ComplaintMust I thus ever interdicted be?Why must I thus forever be confinedTo Sir William Davenant, upon the Unspeakable Loss of the Most Conspicuous and Chief Ornament of his FrontispieceThe Weeping WishEmblem 4Emblem 20Emblem 22Katherine Philipsfrom the 'Tutin' ManuscriptTo my Dearest Antenor on his PartingA Retired Friendship, to ArdeliaFriendship's Mysteries, to my Dearest LucasiaContent, to my Dearest LucasiaFriendship in Emblem, or the Seal, to my Dearest Lucasiafrom the 'Tutin' Manuscript, reverseThe WorldThe SoulInvitation to the CountryOn the 3rd September 16512 Corinthians 5:19from Poems (1664)Upon the Double Murder of King Charles IOn the Numerous Access of the English to Wait upon the King in FlandersArion on a Dolphin, to his Majesty in his Passage into EnglandOn the Fair Weather Just at CoronationOn the Death of the Queen of BohemiaTo the Right Honourable Alice Countess of CarberyTo Antenor, on a Paper of mine which J. Jones Threatens to Publish to Prejudice HimA Country LifeUpon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirementfrom Poems (1667)Epitaph on her Son H. P. at St Sith's ChurchTo my Antenor, March 16 1661/2Orinda upon Little Hector PhilipsMargaret Cavendishfrom Philosophical Fancies (1653)Of Sense and Reason Exercised in their Different ShapesA Dialogue between the Body and the MindAn Elegyfrom Poems and Fancies (1664)The Poetress's Hasty ResolutionA World Made by AtomsOf the Subtlety of MotionOf VacuumOf StarsA World in an EarringThe Purchase of PoetsA Dialogue between Man and NatureA Dialogue between an Oak and a Man Cutting him DownA Dialogue between a Bountiful Knight and a Castle Ruined in WarThe ClaspThe Hunting of the HareA Description of an IslandThe Ruin of this IslandWherein Poetry Chiefly ConsistsA Description of a Shepherd's and Shepherdess's LifeThe Clasp: Of Fairies in the BrainUpon the Funeral of my Dear BrotherLucy Hutchinsonfrom De Rerum NaturaBook 1, lines 1-152Book 2, lines 1048-1180Book 4, lines 1019-1321To Mr Waller upon his Panegyric to the Lord Protectorfrom Elegies1. Leave off, ye pitying friends2. To the Sun Shining into her Chamber2(a). Ah! Why doth death its latest stroke delay3. Another on the Sun Shine7. To the Garden at Owthorpe10. The Recovery12. Musings in my Evening Walks at Owthorpe14. On the Spring, 166820. You sons of England whose unquenched flamefrom Order and DisorderPrefaceBook 1, lines 1-150Book 3, lines 91-188Book 9, lines 1-122from Memoirs of the Life of the Colonel HutchinsonAll Sorts of MenTextual introductionTextual notesIndex of first lines