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Women Poets, The Penguin Book of

by Various, Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe, Kathleen Weaver, Kathleen Weaver · 1978

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A collection of poetry by women poets that spans more than 3500 years and forty literary traditions, with information on the life of each poet and the literary and historical traditions of her time.

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