Full Description
This book presents a collection of the poetry of the 17th-century writer Aphra Behn. It examines the relationships between the sexes, seen from the woman's point of view. The book also includes some of Behn's translations, occasional pieces, satires, and songs.
Contents
Suggestions for Further Reading, The Editions of Behn's Poetry, POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS (1684): The Golden Age, On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks, On the Death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter, A Ballad on Mr. J.H. to Amoret, Song. Love Armed, To Mr. Creech on his Excellent Translation of Lucretius, To Mrs. W. On her Excellent Verses, The Return, On a Copy of Verses made in a Dream, To my Lady Morland at Tunbridge, The Disappointment, On a Locket of Hair Wove in a True-Loves Knot, A letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation, The Reflection: A Song, Song (Ah! what can mean that eager joy), To Lysander, who made some Verses on a Discourse of, Loves Fire, A Dialogue for an Entertainment at Court , To Lysander, on some Verses he writ, To the Honourable Edward Howard, To Lysander at the Music-Meeting, An Ode to Love, A Paraphrase on Ovid's Epistle of Oenone to Paris , MISCELLANY (1685) Song (Cease, cease, Aminta, to complain), A Song (While, Iris, I at distance gaze), Selinda and Cloris, A Pindaric to Mr. P. , A Pastoral to Mr. Stafford, Ovid to Julia. A Letter, A MISCELLANY OF POEMS APPENDED TO LYCIDUS (1688): To Damon, To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition, To Alexis, on his saying, I loved a Man that talked much, On Desire. A Pindaric, On the first discovery of falseness in Amintas, To the fair Clarinda, who made Love to me GILDON'S MISCELLANY (1692): Verses designed by Mrs. A. Behn to be sent to a fair lady, MUSES MERCURY (1707): On a Pin that hurt Amintas' Eye, For Damon, being asked a Reason for his Love FAMILIAR LETTERS (1718): A Letter to the Earl of Kildare To Mrs. Price, A Poem Humbly Dedicated to the Great Pattern of Piety and Virtue Catherine Queen Dowager (1685), To Henry Higden, Esq., on his Translation of the Tenth, Satire of Juvenal (1687), On the Death of E. Waller, Esq. (1688) A Congratulatory Poem to her Sacred Majesty Queen Mary, upon her Arrival in England (1689), A Pindaric Poem to the Reverend Doctor Burnet (1689
