Margaret Cavendish : selected poems / edited and with an introduction by Michael Robbins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674, author.

Contributor:

Robbins, Michael, 1972- editor.

Series:

New York Review Books poets

NYRB/poets

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--17th century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvii, 124 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2019]

Summary:

"An eclectic collection of poetry by one of 17th century England's boldest, smartest, and independent women. Virginia Woolf wrote in A Room of One's Own, "What a vision of loneliness and riot the thought of Margaret Cavendish brings to mind!" Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was a groundbreaking writer--a utopian visionary, a scientist, a science-fiction pioneer. She interacted with Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes, and she produced startlingly modern poems unlike anything else published in the seventeenth century for their mixture of scientific and proto-Blakean vision, their deep sympathy with the nonhuman world, and their feminist passion"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

To All Noble and Worthy Ladies p. 1

The Poetress's Hasty Resolution p. 9

The Poetress's Petition p. 10

An Excuse for So Much Writ upon My Verses p. 11

Nature Calls a Council, Which Was Motion, Figure, Matter, and Life, to Advise About Making the World p. 12

A World Made by Atoms p. 17

The Four Principal Figured Atoms Make the Four Elements, as Square, Round, Long, and Sharp p. 18

Of Airy Atoms p. 20

Of Air p. 21

What Atoms Make a Palsy or Apoplexy p. 22

All Things Are Governed by Atoms p. 23

A War with Atoms p. 24

Atoms and Motion Fall Out p. 25

The Agreement of Some Kind of Motion with Some Kind of Atoms p. 26

Motion Directs While Atoms Dance p. 27

Of the Subtlety of Motion p. 28

Of Vacuum p. 29

If Infinite Worlds, Infinite Centers p. 30

The Infinites of Matter p. 31

The Motion of Thoughts p. 32

The Motion of the Blood p. 35

Of Stars p. 37

What Makes Echo p. 38

Of Rebounds p. 39

Of Light p. 40

Of Light and Sight p. 41

Of Many Worlds in This World p. 42

A World in an Earring p. 43

Several Worlds in Several Circles p. 45

The Clasp p. 46

The Circle of the Brain Cannot Be Squared p. 47

The Purchase of Poets, or a Dialogue Betwixt the Poets, and Fame, and Homer's Marriage p. 48

A Dialogue Betwixt Man and Nature p. 53

A Dialogue Betwixt the Body and the Mind p. 56

A Dialogue Between an Oak and a Man Cutting Him Down p. 59

A Dialogue of Birds p. 64

A Dialogue Between Melancholy and Mirth p. 71

A Dialogue Betwixt Riches and Poverty p. 77

A Dialogue Between a Bountiful Knight and a Castle Ruined in War p. 80

Of the Shortness of Man's Life and His Foolish Ambition p. 82

A Moral Discourse Betwixt Man and Beast p. 83

Of the Ant p. 90

Of Fishes p. 92

A Discourse of the Power of Devils p. 93

The Clasp p. 95

The Hunting of the Hare p. 96

The Hunting of the Stag p. 100

Of an Island p. 105

The Ruin of the Island p. 108

Of Poets and Their Theft p. 111

Nature's Cook p. 114

Similizing the Brain to a Garden p. 115

Similizing Thoughts p. 117

Similizing Fancy to a Gnat p. 118

A Woman Dressed by Age p. 119

A Description of Shepherds and Shepherdesses p. 120

Her Descending Down p. 122

Witches of Lapland p. 123

An Elegy on My Brother, Killed in These Unhappy Wars p. 124.

Other Format:

Online version: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674, author. Margaret Cavendish

ISBN:

9781681371580

1681371588

OCLC:

1060182862