Bill Overton

Standard Name: Overton, Bill

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Aphra Behn
Bill Overton wrote in 2012 in praise of Behn's metrical skill, the subtle and complex texture of her poems
Overton, Bill. “Aphra Behn’s Versification”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
19
, No. 2, May 2012, pp. 145-64.
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and their astonishing variety of forms, ranging through iambic pentameter couplets and Pindaric odes to...
Textual Production Martha Fowke
It has recently been suggested among scholars that MF is the hitherto unidentified author of another and larger group of poems in the Barbados Gazette. Bill Overton thinks it possible, Phyllis Guskin thinks it...

Timeline

1734: Jean Adam or Adams published at Glasgow her...

Women writers item

1734

Jean Adam or Adams published at Glasgow her Miscellany Poems.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Texts

Overton, Bill, editor. A Letter to My Love. University of Delaware Press, 2001.
Overton, Bill. “Aphra Behn’s Versification”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
19
, No. 2, pp. 145-64.