Tit for Tat
Margaret Anne Doody, 21 December 1989
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology
edited by Roger Lonsdale.
Oxford, 555 pp., £20, September 1989,0 19 811769 8 Show More
edited by Roger Lonsdale.
Oxford, 555 pp., £20, September 1989,
“... The publication of this anthology is an important event – as significant as the appearance of Roger Lonsdale’s earlier Oxford Book of 18th-Century Verse, that unmarmoreal volume. As our battle of the books is waged, and canons to the left and right volley and thunder, this dignified Fellow of Balliol has done more to change our view of the 18th century than many avowed canon-chargers with more ostensibly up-to-date artillery ... ”