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Informationen zum Autor Caroline Grigson FSA was, until recently, Principal Curator of the Museums at the Royal College of Surgeons. Isobel Armstrong FBA is Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck College London and was John Hinkley Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University in 2005. She is on the editorial boards of several academic journals and a founder and co-editor of Women: A Cultural Review. Klappentext Anne Home Hunter (1741-1821) was one of the most successful songwriters of the second half of the eighteenth century and most famously renowned as the poet who wrote the lyrics to many of Haydn's songs. This volume contains over two hundred of Hunter's poems, many unpublished in her lifetime and collected for the first time, extending and amplifying the previously definitive edition of her "Poems" that was published in 1802. Accompanied by a scholarly introduction and a long biographical essay, this expertly researched book sets Hunter's oeuvre in the political, social, and cultural context of her time. Zusammenfassung Anne Home Hunter (1741-1821) was one of the most successful song writers of the second half of the eighteenth century! most famously as the poet who wrote the lyrics of many of Haydn's songs.
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Caroline Grigson FSA was, until recently, Principal Curator of the Museums at the Royal College of Surgeons. Isobel Armstrong FBA is Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck College London and was John Hinkley Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University in 2005. She is on the editorial boards of several academic journals and a founder and co-editor of Women: A Cultural Review.
