Only for the Eye of a Friend: The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton Contributor(s): Mulford, Carla (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813933803 ISBN-13: 9780813933801 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $42.08 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
Dewey: 811.1 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 362 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Known among the Middle Atlantic intelligentsia and literati as a witty and versatile writer, considered by George Washington and the Chevalier de La Luzerne a gracious and elegant host, Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801) wrote over a hundred poems on the most important political and social issues of her day. Only for the Eye of a Friend brings back into public view the works of a poet whose published works and manuscrits earned her, in her day, a wide audience among colonists and international readers alike. The quality and quantity of Stockton's literary output makes her an apt counterpart to he seventeenth-century predecessor Anne Bradstreet and the nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson. |