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Lives of Roman Christian Women
Translated and edited with an Introduction
by Carolinne White
Using letters from 203 to 420 AD as well
as Greek and Latin autobiographical
and biographical accounts, this essential
volume explores the daily existence of
women in ancient times.
288 pp. 978-0-14-144193-1 $16.00
Medieval English Verse
Edited and Translated with an
Introduction by Brian Stone
Short narrative poems, religious and
secular lyrics, and moral, political, and
comic verses are all included in this
comprehensive collection of works from
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
256 pp. 978-0-14-044144-4 $16.00
Medieval Writings on
Female Spirituality
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Elizabeth Spearing
This wide-ranging collection of writings
by and about religious women presents
some of the most original and compelling
literature of the Middle Ages. These
selections, among them biographies,
poetic compositions, and visionary works,
reflect the developments in medieval piety,
particularly in the link between female
spirituality and the body.
320 pp. 978-0-14-043925-0 $17.00
See Hildegard of Bingen, Margery Kempe, and
Julian of Norwich.
Metaphysical Poetry
Edited with an Introduction by
Colin Burrow
Series Editor: Christopher Ricks
Featuring more erotic and libertine
poems, more political poems, and more
poems by women, this newly revised
selection offers a generous sampling of the
greatest poets of the seventeenth century.
304 pp. 978-0-14-042444-7 $12.00
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
William C. Spengemann with
Jessica F. Roberts
Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville occupy
the center of this anthology of nearly three
hundred poems, spanning the course of
the century, from Joel Barlow to Edwin
Arlington Robinson, by way of Bryant,
Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe,
Holmes, Jones Very, Thoreau, Lowell, and
Lanier.
480 pp. 978-0-14-043587-0 $17.00
See Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe,
Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman.
The Penguin Book of English Verse
Edited by Paul Keegan
Spanning the fourteenth century to the
twentieth, this ambitious and revelatory
collection of poetry from the British
Isles turns the traditional chronology
of anthologies on its head by arranging
poems according to their first individual
appearance in the English language.
1,184 pp. 978-0-14-042454-6 $20.00
“Rich with discoveries and reclaimings . . . [a]
very exciting, bold book.” —j a m e s w o o d
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