Word: poetesses
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...prose-puncher, a "critic" who makes you stop, look & listen by the amusing mock-violence of her own irrelevant reactions, Mrs. Parker has written, in Laments for the Living, some first-rate dialogs. But when her climate curdles her to rhyme, her curtness often turns to slightly acidulous whey. Poetess Parker's ideas can usually be contained in a quatrain though she often lets them wander farther. Death and Taxes has a few neat quatrains...
WRITTEN in the leisurely tempo of the epoch which is its setting, "The Singing Swan" brings another character of Doctor Johnson's time to modern literature. Anna Seward, poetess, romanticist, and the woman who dared to beard the dean of English lexicographers to his face, finds kind if at times somewhat detailed treatment at the hands of her biographer, Margaret Ashmun...
...rhythmic, highly-colored Chassidic chants. † Last week Dr. Holmes listed the "ten greatest women of today," as follows: Jane Addams, "greatest among modern women"; Theosophist Annie Besant; Catherine Breshkovsky, "Grandmother of the Russian Revolution"; Scientist Mme Marie Curie; Anarchist Emma Goldman; Helen Keller, "most perfectly triumphant of women"; Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay; Mme Sarojini Naidu, "first among Indian women"; Margaret Sanger, "indomitable advocate of birth control"; Authoress Sigrid Undset...
...this was the enchanting pseudonym under which Mrs. Philips went) was considered worthy by her age to be called the matchless, but posterity has not been so indulgent with its favor and consequently a reliable copy of her writings is now very rare. In his critical study of the poetess the author has included all of the important products of her none-too-fluent pen, especially her highly interesting letters to Poliarchus, her friend Sir Charles Cotterell...
...addition to being England's first poetess Orinda can claim attention as being one of the leaders of a new literary movement growing out of the transitional period during the time of the Commonwealth. Daughter of a Puritan and wife of a Puritan, she was, nevertheless, a Cavalier at heart and remained secretly loyal during the Commonwealth. Thus she carried the tradition of the earlier Cavalier poets over to the Restoration, soon after which she began to reap the praise of her contemporaries, including Dryden. The Matchless Orinda has now settled to her proper classification as one of the better...