"My rare wit killing sin" : poems of a Restoration courtier /
"This is the first modern edition of verse by Anne Killigrew, a poet and portrait painter born in 1660 at the very start of the Restoration, who grew up as part of the complicated political, religious, and artistic worlds of the Restoration courts of Charles II and his brother James, Duke of Yo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto I :
Iter Inc. : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies,
2013.
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| Series: | Other voice in early modern Europe. Toronto series ;
27. |
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| Summary: | "This is the first modern edition of verse by Anne Killigrew, a poet and portrait painter born in 1660 at the very start of the Restoration, who grew up as part of the complicated political, religious, and artistic worlds of the Restoration courts of Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York. Killigrew never chose to print her verses, but instead participated in a literary circulation network including family, friends, and members of the court; her position in relation to court culture and her family's involvement with the London commercial stage gave her a unique perspective into the issues confronting a young single woman in a period during which libertinism was the dominant ethos of the courtiers. This edition lightly modernizes the spelling and punctuation of the posthumous volume of her collected verse, provides notes identifying the classical and biblical allusions which shape her works, and provides a historical context for her literary and artistic career in the introduction"--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | Modernized version of the work Killigrew, Anne, 1660-1685. Poems, published in London by Samuel Lowndes in 1686. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 165 pages : colour plate ; 23 cm. Issued also in electronic format. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780772721525 (pbk.) 0772721521 (pbk.) |