Essays by John Rogers, Helen Wilcox, Donna Landry, Margaret A. Doody, Susan J. Wolfson, John M. Anderson, and Stuart Curran on the way that women poets found their vocation.

Anne K. Mellor’s recent books include Mothers of the Nation: Women’s Political Writing in England, 1780–1830; and she has edited, with Maximillian E. Novak, Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility.

Felicity Nussbaum’s work on gender and eighteenth-century studies includes Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives, and she has edited, with Helen Deutsch, Defects: Engendering the Nation.

Jonathan F. S. Post’s most recent books are Green Thoughts, Green Shades: Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric and English Lyric Poetry: The Early Seventeenth Century.

The coeditors of Forging Connections: Women’s Poetry from the Renaissance to Romanticism are all professors of English at UCLA.

"An impressive volume."—Studies in English Literature