The Poems of Aphra Behn - A Selection

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.

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: Janet Todd
• Assisted by: Janet Todd (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1992
• EAN: 9781851960477
• ISBN: 978-1-85196-047-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Pickering Women's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets