Research Catalog

Title

"My rare wit killing sin": poems of a Restoration courtier / Anne Killigrew ; edited by Margaret J.M. Ezell.

Author

Killigrew, Anne, 1660-1685.

Publication

Toronto : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Ezell, Margaret J. M.
• Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies issuing body.
• Iter (Toronto, Ont.), issuing body.

Description

xv, 165 pages : color plate; 23 cm.

Summary

"This is the first modern edition of verse by Anne Killigrew, a poet and portrait painter born in 1660 at the very start of the Restoration, who grew up as part of the complicated political, religious, and artistic worlds of the Restoration courts of Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York. Killigrew never chose to print her verses, but instead participated in a literary circulation network including family, friends, and members of the court; her position in relation to court culture and her family's involvement with the London commercial stage gave her a unique perspective into the issues confronting a young single woman in a period during which libertinism was the dominant ethos of the courtiers. This edition lightly modernizes the spelling and punctuation of the posthumous volume of her collected verse, provides notes identifying the classical and biblical allusions which shape her works, and provides a historical context for her literary and artistic career in the introduction"--Back cover.

Series Statement

Other voice in early modern Europe. Toronto series ; 27

Uniform Title

• Poems
• Other voice in early modern Europe. Toronto series ; 27.

Alternative Title

Poems

Subject

• Killigrew, Anne, 1660-1685
• English poetry > 17th century

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Poetry.

Note

• Modernized version of the work Killigrew, Anne, 1660-1685. Poems, published in London by Samuel Lowndes in 1686.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149) and indexes.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Issued By (note)

• Co-published by: Iter Inc.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Poems by Anne Killigrew -- Appendix 1: Poems about Anne Killigrew -- Appendix 2: Poems by others printed at the end of Killigrew's Poems but not by her -- Appendix 3: Poems on the death of Killigrew's aunt, Anne Killigrew Kirke (1607-1641) -- Appendix 4: A sample of contemporary Restoration male courtier poems.

ISBN

9780772721525 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013496269

OCLC

864394608

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library