1st Edition

The Poems of Aphra Behn A Selection

By Janet Todd Copyright 1993
288 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a popular poet, author of the influential novel "Oroonoko" and one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre. This book contains a selection of her poetry.

Introduction, Notes on this Edition, Songs and Satires, Love Poetry, Verse Epistles, Translation and Paraphrase, Prologues and Epilogues, Commendation and Elegy, Poems of Loyalty, Notes, Index of First Lines, Index of Titles

Biography

Janet Todd's most recent book is Mary Wollstonecraft. She is Professor of English at the University of East Anglia.