"[And] when she ceased, we sighing saw / The floor lay paved with broken hearts."

[larryhammer]

Since All Knowledge Is Contained On Social Networks, a question for you all:

I'm noticing that most of the narrative poems I reread are by men. This … could stand correcting. There's Goblin Market of course, and Aurora Leigh plus Tighe's Psyche, though those two last are on the long side for casual reading.

What am I missing?

Can be new or old, though I'm more in the mood for older poetry at the moment -- I can save the modern/contemporary poems for another time.

---L.

Subject quote from "Gratiana Dancing," Richard Lovelace.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Aphra Behn perhaps?

[larryhammer]

*blink* Hadn't known she did narrative poems -- lyrics and plays and novels, sure, including some delightful gender-bending stuff. Must track this down.

ETA: Ah -- yes, there's some good narratives amid the odes and lyrics. Thanks!

[cmcmck]

And if you have the French, there's the amazing Christine de Pizan.

The Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc is a favourite of mine.

[larryhammer]

None of the French, just wobbly Spanish, rusty German, and slowly staling Japanese. I think I saw a notice of a translation of Mde. de Pizan recently ...