Selected Poems of Aphra Behn

by Hicks,Malcolm

• ISBN13: 9780415967556
• ISBN10: 0415967554
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The novels and plays of Aphra Behn (1640-89) continue to draw attention, but much of her best work is in her poetry. Both candid and subtle, her writing was a radical exploration of the relationship between the sexes.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Suggestions for Further Reading	xxii
The Editions of Behn's Poetry	xxiv
POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS (1684)
The Golden Age	1	(6)
On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks	7	(3)
On the Death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter	10	(2)
A Ballad on Mr. J.H. to Amoret	12	(2)
Song, Love Armed	14	(1)
To Mr. Creech on his Excellent Translation of Lucretius	15	(4)
To Mrs. W. On her Excellent Verses	19	(2)
The Return	21	(1)
On a Copy of Verses made in a Dream	22	(1)
To my Lady Morland at Tunbridge	23	(2)
The Disappointment	25	(4)
On a Locket of Hair Wove in a True-Loves Knot	29	(1)
A letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation	30	(1)
The Reflection: A Song	31	(2)
Song (Ah! what can mean that eager joy)	33	(1)
To Lysander, who made some Verses on a Discourse of Loves Fire	34	(1)
A Dialogue for an Entertainment at Court	35	(2)
To Lysander, on some Verses he writ	37	(2)
To the Honourable Edward Howard	39	(3)
To Lysander at the Music-Meeting	42	(1)
An Ode to Love	43	(1)
A Paraphrase on Ovid's Epistle of Oenone to Paris	44	(9)
MISCELLANY (1685)
Song (Cease, cease, Aminta, to complain)	53	(1)
A Song (While, Iris, I at distance gaze)	53	(1)
Selinda and Cloris	54	(3)
A Pindaric to Mr. P.	57	(2)
A Pastoral to Mr. Stafford	59	(4)
Ovid to Julia. A Letter	63	(3)
A MISCELLANY OF POEMS APPENDED TO LYCIDUS (1688)
To Damon	66	(3)
To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition	69	(1)
To Alexis, on his saying, I loved a Man that talked much	70	(1)
On Desire. A Pindaric	71	(4)
On the first discovery of falseness in Amintas	75	(2)
To the fair Clarinda, who made Love to me	77	(1)
GILDON'S MISCELLANY (1692)
Verses designed by Mrs. A. Behn to be sent to a fair lady	77	(1)
MUSES MERCURY (1707)
On a Pin that hurt Amintas' Eye	78	(1)
For Damon, being asked a Reason for his Love	79	(1)
FAMILIAR LETTERS (1718)
A Letter to the Earl of Kildare	80	(1)
To Mrs. Price	81	(1)
A Poem Humbly Dedicated to the Great Pattern of Piety and Virtue Catherine Queen Dowager (1685)	82	(5)
To Henry Higden, Esq., on his Translation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal (1687)	87	(3)
On the Death of E. Waller, Esq. (1688)	90	(1)
A Congratulatory Poem to her Sacred Majesty Queen Mary, upon her Arrival in England (1689)	91	(4)
A Pindaric Poem to the Reverend Doctor Burnet (1689)	95	(4)
Notes	99