by Deborah Kennedy (Author)

Poetic Sisters explores the personal and literary connections among five eighteenth-century women poets. Anchored in the work of Anne Finch, author of "A Nocturnal Reverie," this book explores a female literary network, and emphasizes the range and extent of these writers' poetic achievement and its resonance for the twenty-first-century reader.

Author Biography

Deborah Kennedy is professor of English at Saint Mary's University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where she specializes in British literature of the eighteenth century and the romantic period. She is the author of Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution (Bucknell University Press) and she has published on a variety of subjects, including women's literary history, women and popular music, eighteenth-century art history, and the British poetic tradition.