About this Book

This anthology of women's poetry is at once historically representative, catholic in its taste and rigorously selective - demonstrating the richness and variety of women's contributions to twentieth-century literature. Gathering together poems by writers as diverse as Hilda Doolittle and Margaret Atwood, Marianne Moore and Stevie Smith, Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath, The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry sets the standard by which other similar anthologies can be judged.