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

    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.
    Alan Parker and Mark Willhardt, in bringing together these poems for the first time, assert an entirely new paradigm; a theoretical and practical reading of a heretofore undefined genre. They also provide a critical introduction which synthesizes traditional literary debates with current gender theory and, through the lens of historical, literary, social and theoretical issues, present a new way to interpret these 'ventriloquized' poems.
    The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse provides a wealth of material for students and teachers of literature and gender studies. It is a compelling collection which will also appeal to poetry lovers.

    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.

    Biography

    Alan Michael Parker, Mark Willhardt