Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. The Worlds and I. Gay and Hancock, 1918.
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Emily Stipes Watts
Standard Name: Watts, Emily Stipes
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Edgar Allan Poe
, reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS
did too much borrowing: from Hannah More
, William Cowper
, William Wordsworth
, and Byron
. Critic Emily Stipes Watts |
| Literary responses | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Literary historian Emily Stipes Watts
and others have noted Sigourney's high reputation in her own day (the female Milton, the American Hemans, the sweet singer of Hartford, generally ranked higher than William Cullen Bryant |
| Literary responses | Sarah Wentworth Morton | During her lifetime SWM
was seen as standing at the head of a national tradition of women's writing: in 1791 she was flattered with the honorific titles of both the Sappho
and the Elizabeth Montagu |
| Literary responses | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | The book was published to ridicule and condemnation from the New York Sun and the Chicago Herald, |
| Literary responses | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | In 1951, however, the poet Louise Bogan
set out to recuperate her as the founder of a whole feminine school of rather daring verse on the subject of feminine and masculine emotions. qtd. in Watts, Emily Stipes. The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. University of Texas Press, 1977. 144 |
| Textual Features | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | This poem, about 3,500 lines long, is written mostly in couplets of anapestic tretrameter with other feet like iambs and trochees here and there, many lines than run on past the rhyme-word, and with caesura... |
| Textual Features | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Many of the poems in this volume are about the deaths of children. Mothers and men (particularly ministers) are elegised in her poems as well, but LHS
saves her keenest feelings for mothers (and sometimes... |
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Texts
Watts, Emily Stipes. The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. University of Texas Press, 1977.