Table of Contents: “…Serpentine Eve : plotting gender in the seventeenth-century garden -- Gazing, gender, and the construction of governance in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum and Milton's Paradise lost -- Milton among the prophets : inspiration and gendered discourse in the mid-seventeenth century -- Maternity, marriage, and contract : Lucy Hutchinson's response to patriarchal theory in Order and disorder -- The two faces of Eve : gendering knowledge and the "new" science in Paradise lost and Margaret Cavendish's Blazing world -- Rewriting creation : Mary Chudleigh's The song of the three children paraphras'd and Paradise lost -- Spaces and traces of the garden story in Aphra Ben and Mary Astell : mapping female subjectivit(ies) through patriarchialist discourse -- Conclusion : influencing traditions of interpretation.…”

Table of Contents: “…Pointer -- The fabric of restoration Puritanism : Mary Chudleigh's The song of the three children paraphras'd / Barbara Olive -- From imitating language to a language of imitation : Puritan-Indian discourse in early New England / Richard Pointer -- A plain Turkish tyranny : images of the Turk in anti-Puritan polemic / Glenn Sanders -- Assurance, community, and the Puritan self in the antinomian controversy, 1636-38 -- / Timothy D. …”

Table of Contents: “…Against love poetry / by Eavan Boland -- Blandeur / by Kay Ryan -- Defending Walt Whitman / by Sherman Alexie -- The Esquimos have no word for ''war'' / by Mary Oliver -- Half-hanged Mary / by Margaret Atwood -- In the orchard / by Henrik Ibsen -- Let America be America again / by Langston Hughes -- Meeting at night / by Robert Browning -- Midcentury love letter / by Phyllis McGinley -- Peace / by Rupert Brooke -- Question / by May Swenson -- Sound and sense / by Alexander Pope -- A story / by Li-Young Lee -- To the ladies / by Mary Chudleigh -- What lips my lips have kissed / by Edna St. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-73) -- Orinda herself: Katherine Philips (1631-64) -- Anne Kiligrew (1660-85) -- Mary Astell (1668-1731) -- Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710) -- Jane Barker (1652-1727?) …”

Table of Contents: “…Mary Rowlandson ; The third remove / Mary Rowlandson (c. 1636-c. 1678) -- The willing mistress ; Love armed ; The disappointment ; On her loving two equally ; To the fair Clarinda, who made love to me, imagined more than woman / Aphra Behn (1640-1689) -- To the ladies / Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710) -- Upon the saving that my verses were made by another / Anne Killigrew (1660-1685) -- The introduction ; A letter to Daphnis, April 2, 1685 ; Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia ; The circuit of Apollo ; The answer ; The spleen ; To the nightingale ; A nocturnal reverie / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) -- A serious proposal to the ladies ; [A religious retirement] / Mary Astell (1666-1731) -- Letter to the countess of bute, Lady Montagu's daughter [On her granddaughter] ; Epistle from Mrs. …”