"This ambitious and substantial work makes a significant contribution to an emerging field that Bennett herself helped bring into being. There is no doubt that this book will be the most important single survey of nineteenth-century American women's verse yet to appear. It also clearly advances American feminist scholarship by turning its attention to the poetry heretofore neglected in favor of the period's prose."--Virginia Jackson, New York University
"Elegantly and carefully written, this is a genuinely innovative and ground-breaking work that provides us with new ways of reading a whole period of American literary history. Every single scholar concerned with American poetry will want to read it."--Cary Nelson, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
