| Description |
xx, 612 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Catalan / (anonymous) -- Spanish (Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Peru, Argentina, Chile) / Hispano-Arabic jarchas / Anonymous ballad / Morisco ballad / Jewish ballad / Anonymous songs / Florencia del Pinar / Rosalía de Castro / Gloria Fuertes / Julia Uceda / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz / Rosario Castellanos / Isabel Fraire / Julia de Burgos / Elsa Tió / Rosario Ferré / Claribel Alegría / Blanca Varela / Lucia Fox / Alfonsina Strorni / Martha Paley Francescato / Gabriela Mistral |
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Chinese The book of songs / Cho Wen-chün / Hsi-chün / Ch'in Chia's wife / Lady Pan / Anonymous poems / Yüeh-fu shih / Ts'ai Yen / Tzu Yeh songs / Chao Luan-luan / Anonymous palace women / Hsüeh T'ao / Yü Hsüan-chi / Li Ch'ing-chao / Anonymous courtesan / Chu Shu-chen / Wang Ch'ing-hui / Chao Li-hua / Huang O / Wang Wei / Sun Yün-feng / Wu Tsao / Ch'iu chin / Ping Hsin / Li Chü |
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English (England, United States, Canada, Australia) / Mary Sidney Herbert, countess of Pembroke / Emilia Lanier / Anne Bradstreet / Katherine Philips / Aphra Behn / Anne Killigrew / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu / Charlotte Smith / Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Emily Brontë / Christina Rossetti / Emily Dickinson / Mary Elizabeth Coleridge / Amy Lowell / Elinor Wylie / H.D. / Edith Sitwell / Marianne Moore / Edna St. Vincent Millay / Louise Bogan / Stevie Smith / Kathleen Raine / Muriel Rukeyser / Ruth Stone / Gwendolyn Brooks / May Swenson / Mary Ellen Solt / Shirley Kaufman / Denise Levertov / Vassar Miller / Carolyn Kizer / Maxine Kumin / Anne Sexton / Adrienne Rich / Sylvia Plath / Jayne Cortez / Marge Piercy / June Jordan / Judith Johnson Sherwin / Kathleen Spivack / Grace Schulman / Margaret Atwood / Sandra McPherson / Louise Glück / Shirley Williams / Ai / Olga Broumas / Aliki Barnstone / Ntozake Shange / Roberta Hill / Gwen Harwood / Rosemary Dobson |
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German (Germany, Austria) / Frau Ava / Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff / Else Lasker-Schüler / Nelly Sachs / Hilde Domin / Martina Werner / Petra von Morstein / Karin Kiwus / Ingeborg Bachmann -- Dutch / Hadwijch / Sister Bertken / Judith Herzberg |
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Italian / Vittoria da Colonna / Gaspara Stampa / Ruth Domino / Maria Luisa Spaziani / Edith Bruck / Rossana Ombres |
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Japanese / Empress Iwa no HIme / Princess Oku / A court lady / Woman of Suminoe / Anonymous (ca. 733 and 8th century) / Young woman of Harima / Lady Ōtomo of Sakanone / Lady Kasa / Ono no Komachi / Lady Ise / Anonymous / Izumi Shikibu / Lady Sagami / Akazome Emon / Murasaki Shikibu / Ise Tayū / Ryōjin Hishō / Lady Horikawa / Princess Shikishi / Chiyo / Yosano Akiko / Mitsuhashi Takajo / Nagase Kiyoko / Fumi Saitō / Kiyoko Tsuda / Tada Chimako / Shiraishi Kazuko / Sachiko Yoshihara / Takako U. Lento / Kanai Mieko |
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Native American languages. Nahuatl / (Aztec, anonymous) -- Quechua / (Peru, anonymous) -- Pampa / (anonymous) -- Chippewa / (anonymous) -- Apache / (anonymous) -- Papago / (anonymous) -- Hawaiian / (anonymous) -- Eskimo / (anonymous) |
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Papuan (New Guinea) / Buin tribe / Elema tribe / Boiken tribe -- Welsh / Gwerfyl Mechain -- Anglo-Saxon / (anonymous) |
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Persian (India and Iran) / Princess Zeb-un-Nissa / Empress Nur Jahan / Forugh Farrokhzad -- Turkish / Bayati -- Arabic (Iraq, Arabia, Morocco, northwest Africa) / Rabi'a the mystic / Al-Khirniq / Al-Khansa / Laila Akhyaliyya Ancient songs of the women of Fez haufi (traditional songs) |
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Polish / Wislawa Szymborska -- Rumanian / Maria Banus / Magda Isanos / Veronica Porumbacu / Nina Cassian / Ileana Malacioiu / Constanta Buzea / Ana Blandiana / Gabriela Melinescu -- Hungarian / Anna Hajnal / Ágnes Nemes Nagy / Ágnes Gergely -- Norwegian / Astrid Hjertenaes Andersen -- Swedish / Sonja Åkesson -- Danish / Cecil Bødker / Inger Chistensen -- Estonian / Betti Alver -- Russian / Anna Akhmatova / Marina Tsvetayeva / Olga Berggolts / Natalya Gorbanyevskaya / Bella Akhmadulina |
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Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) / Sor violante do Céu / Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen / The three Marias, Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Velho da Costa / Cecília Meireles / Henriqueta Lisboa / Leila Miccolis / Maria Amália Fonte Boa |
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Provençal (France) / Countess Beatritz die Die / Anonymous -- French (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Lebanon, Egypt) / Anonymous songs / Marie de France The song of the ill-married / Christine de Pisan / Louise Labé / Marceline Desbordes-Valmore / Marguerite Bernat-Provins / Thérèse Plantier / Joyce Mansour / Yvonne Caroutch / Anne-Marie Albiach / Marie-Françoise Prager / Anne-Marie Kegels / Monique Laederach / Claude Maillard / Denise Jallais / Anne Hébert / Nadia Tuéni / Venus Khoury-Gata / Andrée Chedid |
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Sumerian / Enhuduanna -- Akkadian / Inib-sarri / Erisit-Aya -- Egyptian / anonymous hieroglyphic texts -- Hebrew (ancient and modern) Hannah's thanksgiving The song of Deborah from Song of Songs / Leah Goldberg / Dahlia Ravikovitch -- Neo-Aramaic (Persia) : traditional song -- Greek (ancient, biblical, Byzantine, modern) / Sappho / Praxilla / Telesilla / Anyte / Korinna The magnificat / Kassia Moirologia (traditional funeral songs) / Eleni Vakalo / Lydia Stephanou / Lina Kasdaglis / Nana Issaia / Eva Mylonás / Jenny Mastoraki -- Latin (classical and Medieval) / Sulpicia / anonymous from the Cambridge songs / anonymous from the Carmina burana |
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The languages of Africa. Bagirmi (traditional) -- Nyasa (traditional) -- Yoruba (Nigeria, traditional) -- Hottentot (South Africa, traditional) -- Amharic (Ethiopia, traditional) -- Afrikaans (South Africa) / Ingrid Jonker |
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The languages of India. Sanskrit / Vidya / Sila / Mahodahi / Vallana / Marula -- Classical Tamil / Okkur Macatti / Kaccipettu Nannakaiyar / Andal -- Kannada / Mahādēvi / Honnamma -- Marathi / Mukta Bai / Jana Bai -- Pali / Sumangala's mother -- Hindi / Mira Bai -- Telugu / Kshetrayya -- Kashmiri / Lal Ded |
| Summary |
Spans four thousand years and the world's major civilization to anthologize verses by women ranging from Enheduanna, a second millennium B.C. Sumerian princess, to the medieval poets Marie de France and Florencia de Pinar, to noteworthy poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries |
| Analysis |
Poetry - Women authors |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Women authors.
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Poetry -- Women authors.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Author |
Barnstone, Aliki, editor
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Barnstone, Willis, 1927- editor
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| LC no. |
78054391 |
| ISBN |
0805206809 |
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0805236937 |
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9780805206807 |
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9780805236934 |
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