Writing against the current: Anne Wilson's teisa and the tradition of british river poetry

Bridget Keegan

doi:10.1080/00497870212954

Writing against the current: Anne Wilson's teisa and the tradition of british river poetry

Bridget Keegan

College of Arts and Sciences

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Abstract

One of the very few works by a woman within the subgenre of river poetry, Anne Wilson's 1600-line poem Teisa: A Descriptive Poem of the River Teese, Its Towns and Antiquities (1778) appears, at first, to fulfill all of the conventions of eighteenth-century locodescriptive verse in general, and river poetry in particular.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	267-285
Number of pages	19
Journal	Women's Studies
Volume	31
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00497870212954
Publication status	Published - Jan 1 2002

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Keegan, B. (2002). Writing against the current: Anne Wilson's teisa and the tradition of british river poetry. Women's Studies, 31(2), 267-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497870212954

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