1st Edition

The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse

Edited By Alan Michael Parker, Mark Willhardt Copyright 1996
240 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Both male and female poets cross the gender line: men assume a female voice and women a male voice. The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse is a fascinating collection of such poems, beginning in the age of Chaucer and working its way through to the present day. Together these poems offer a unique collection of masks, personae and voices, rife with issues of class, gender and race.... Read more
Poets include: Geoffrey Chaucer, Nicolas Breton, John Donne, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Aphra Behn, Alexander Pope, Mary Monck, Judith Madon, Jean Glover, Robert Burns, Robert Browning, William Wordsworth, Emily Bront^D:e, Christina Rossetti, Mary E. Tucker, Amy Levy, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, John Ashbery, Ted Hughes, Wallace Stevens, Lucille Clifton.

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Alan Michael Parker, Mark Willhardt