Acknowledgments; Introduction: Representations; Gender in the Verse Garden; Piling and Compiling: The Works and Days of Elizabeth Rowe; Poems by Eminent Ladies: The Biographical Anthology of 1755; Katherine Philips in (and as) The Virgin Muse; Aphra Behn and the Politics of Poems by Eminent Ladies; Leaving the Poet(ess) for Dead: Anne Finch and Alexander Pope; Conclusion: Uncollected; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index