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Selected PoemsAphra BehnEdited by Malcolm Hicks![]()
Categories: 17th Century, LGBTQ+, Women
Imprint: FyfieldBooks Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (102 pages) (Pub. Apr 2003) 9781857547016 Out of Stock
Impertinence, my sexes shame,
(Which has so long my life pursued,) You with such modesty reclaim As all the woman has subdued, To so divine a power what must I owe, That renders me so like the perfect - you? (from 'To Alexis, On his saying, I loved a Man that talked much')
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is best known for her novel Oroonoko. Her plays have been revived, in print and on the stage, in modern times, but much of her best work, as she herself knew, is to be found in her poetry. The versatile form and content of her translation, satires and songs, and above all her radical exploration of relationships between the sexes, set her apart from her contemporaries. Behn wittily negotiates the complexities and ironies of women's role in a society in which honour is a commodity. Candid and subtle, her poetry speaks with a distinctive, vigorous intelligence and satirical edge. This generous selection includes an introduction that sets her work in context, notes on the text and suggestions for further reading.
Table of Contents
Introduction Suggestions for Further Reading The Editions of Behn's Poetry POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS (1684): The Golden Age On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks On the Death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter A Ballad on Mr. J.H. to Amoret Song. Love Armed To Mr. Creech on his Excellent Translation of Lucretius To Mrs. W. On her Excellent Verses The Return On a Copy of Verses made in a Dream To my Lady Morland at Tunbridge The Disappointment On a Locket of Hair Wove in a True-Loves Knot A letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation The Reflection: A Song Song (Ah! What can mean that eager joy) To Lysander, who make some Verses on a Discourse of Loves Fire A Dialogue for an Entertainment at Court To Lysander, on some Verses he writ To the Honourable Edward Howard To Lysander at the Music-Meeting An Ode to Love A Paraphrase on Ovid's Epistle of Oenone to Paris MISCELLANY (1685) Song (Cease, cease, Aminta, to complain) A Song (While, Iris, I at distance gaze) Selinda and Cloris A Pindaric to Mr. P. A Pastoral to Mr. Stafford Ovid to Julia. A Letter A MISCELLANY OF POEMS APPENDED TO LYCIDUS (1688) To Damon To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition To Alexis, on his saying, I loved a Man that talked much On Desire. A Pindaric On the first discovery of falseness in Amintas To the fair Clarinda, who made Love to me GILDON'S MISCELLANY (1692) Verses designed by Mrs. A. Behn to be sent to a fair lady MUSES MERCURY (1707) On a Pin that hurt Amintas' Eye For Damon, being asked a Reason for his Love FAMILIAR LETTERS (1718) A Letter to the Earl of Kildare To Mrs. Price.... A Poem Humbly Dedicated to the Great Pattern of Piety and Virtue Catherine Queen Dowager (1685) To Henry Higden, Esq., on his Translations of the Tenth Satire On Juvenal (1687) On the Death of E. Waller, Esq. (1688) A Congratulatory Poem to her Sacred Majesty Queen Mary, upon Her Arrival in England (1689) A Pindaric Poem to the Reverend Doctor Burnet (1689) Notes |
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