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Margaret Cavendish
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An eclectic collection of poetry by one of 17th century England’s boldest, smartest, and independent women.Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was a groundbreaking writer—a utopian visionary, a scientist, a science-fiction pioneer. She moved in philosophical circles that included Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes, and she produced startlingly modern poems unlike anything published in the seventeenth century or since, at once scientific and visionary, full of feminist passion and deep sympathy with the nonhuman world. In recent years, Cavendish has found many new admirers, and this selection of her verse by Michael Robbins is an ideal introduction to her singular poetic world.
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| Weight | 0.13 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.07 × 11.43 × 17.78 cm |
| PubliCanadanadation City/Country | USA |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 144 |
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| Year Published | 2019-4-16 |
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| ISBN 10 | 1681371588 |
| About The Author | Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) was the most prolific woman writer of the Restoration. Born in Essex into a wealthy but untitled family, in 1643 she became maid of honor to Queen Henrietta Maria. At the outbreak of the First English Civil War, Margaret accompanied the queen in her exile to France; in Paris she met William Cavendish, First Duke of Newcastle, and the two were married in 1645. While the couple lived on the Continent—in Paris, Rotterdam, and Antwerp—Margaret began writing poetry and philosophical essays, and on a visit back to England to petition for her husband’s estate, she published Poems, and Fancies (1651) and Philosophicall Fancies (1653). A fashionable eccentric, for the next two decades she wrote poems, stories, plays, romances, biographies, memoirs, natural philosophy, scientific treatises, and, with Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), one of the earliest works of science fiction. In 1667, she was the first woman invited to attend a meeting of the Royal Society of London. After her death, her husband published a collection of pieces that had been written in her praise, Letters and Poems in Honour of the Incomparable Princess, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle.Michael Robbins is the author of two books of poetry and the essay collection Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper’s, Bookforum, The Nation, and several other publications. He is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Montclair State University. |
"Virginia Woolf famously described Margaret Cavendish as a cucumber choking the roses. To my mind, Cavendish is the whole garden, prickly and wild and fresh. With no formal education, her fierce and elemental imagination tuned itself to atoms and rabbits, trees and invisible worlds—it vibrates across these pages." —Danielle Dutton, author of Margaret the First: A Novel“Margaret Cavendish clearly established herself as an alternative voice of sceptical wit and humane enquiry, unique among seventeenth-century women, and prophesying many others. There is something magnificent about her irrepressible eccentricity. In her own fashion she survived a social revolution, and bore witness to a scientific one.” —Richard Holmes |
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| Table Of Content | Table of Contents Introduction Note on the Text Further reading To All Noble and Worthy Ladies To the Reader Poems The Poetress’s Hasty Resolution The Poetress’s Petition An Excuse for So Much Writ upon My Verses Nature Calls a Council, Which Was Motion, Figure, Matter, and Life, to Advise About Making the World A World Made by Atoms The Four Principal Figured Atoms Make the Four Elements, as Square, Round, Long, and Sharp Of Airy Atoms Of Air What Atoms Make a Palsy or Apoplexy All Things Are Governed by Atoms A War with Atoms Atoms and Motion Fall Out The Agreement of Some Kind of Motion with Some Kind of Atoms Motion Directs While Atoms Dance Of the Subtlety of Motion Of Vacuum If Infinite Worlds, Infinite Centers The Infinites of Matter The Motion of Thoughts The Motion of the Blood Of Stars What Makes Echo Of Rebounds Of Light Of Light and Sight Of Many Worlds in This World A World in an Earring Several Worlds in Several Circles Clasp The Circle of the Brain Cannot Be Squared The Purchase of Poets, or a Dialogue betwixt the Poets, and Fame, and Homer’s Marriage A Dialogue betwixt Man and Nature A Dialogue betwixt the Body and the Mind A Dialogue between an Oak and a Man Cutting Him Down A Dialogue of Birds A Dialogue between Melancholy and Mirth A Dialogue betwixt Riches and Poverty A Dialogue between a Bountiful Knight and a Castle Ruined in War Of the Shortness of Man’s Life and His Foolish Ambition A Moral Discourse betwixt Man and Beast Of the Ant Of Fishes A Discourse of the Power of Devils The Clasp The Hunting of the Hare The Hunting of the Stag Of an Island The Ruin of the Island Of Poets and Their Theft Nature’s Cook Similizing the Brain to a Garden Similizing Thoughts Similizing Fancy to a Gnat A Woman Dressed by Age A Description of Shepherds and Shepherdesses Her Descending Down Witches of Lapland An Elegy on My Brother, Killed in These Unhappy Wars |
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