Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970 (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Adrienne Rich
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, Politics, Sexism, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Gender roles, Marriage, Poetry or poets, Feminism, Lesbianism or lesbians, Women’s issues, Women, Creative process, Life and death, Precious metals or stones, Diamonds, Gems, Weather
Form and Content
Collected Early Poems, 1950-1970, by Adrienne Rich, traces her work’s development from formal and tightly structured poems to loose and very consciously feminist ones. Rich’s first book was A Change of World, published in 1951 in the Yale Younger Poets series. It appeared when she was only twenty-two, and W. H. Auden, who selected the book for the Yale award, described the poems as modest and “craftsmanlike.” The models for the style and form of the poems in this book were, according to Rich, all male. The book contains many imitations of...
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