Selected Works of Anne Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea


Frequently Anthologized and Studied Poems

The Introduction
The Appology
On Myselfe
A Letter to Dafnis
To Mr. F now Earl of W
The Goute and Spider
Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia
Glass
Petition for an Absolute Retreat
The Change
The Circuit of Appollo
An Epilogue to the Tragedy of Jane Shore
The Answer to Mr. Pope's Impromptu


The Spleen: a Pindarique Ode by a Lady  (1709)

Complete - Google Books


The Free-Thinkers: A Poem in Dialogue  (1711)

Complete - Ellen Moody


Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions Written by a Lady  (1713)

Complete - UPenn


Aristomenes: A Tragedy  (in Poems, 1713)

Complete - UPenn


The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea, Myra Reynolds, ed.  (1903)

Complete - Google Books


Other Editions

Online Edition: Unpublished Poems of Anne Finch - Ellen Moody


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Anne Finch, also known as Anne Kingsmill and Anne Kingsmill Finch was Countess of Winchilsea, also known as Winchelsea in England. She was an English Poet of the Restoration and 18th century and her poems are considered to be some of the few great poems on nature between Milton's Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons. Her poetry is part of the canon of english literature and she is one of the few female (feminine, woman, women, poetess) writers. A lady poet, she is part of the Early Modern women writers, and . Her part in history was not appreciated until first Wordsworth, and then Edmund Gosse, noted her in his criticism. She can be considered part of the canon of early modern women writers during the renaissance and renaissance women writers.

Anne Finch, also known as Anne Kingsmill and Anne Kingsmill Finch was Countess of Winchilsea, also known as Winchelsea in England. She was an English Poet of the Restoration and 18th century and her poems are considered to be some of the few great poems on nature between Milton's Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons. Her poetry is part of the canon of english literature and she is one of the few female (feminine, woman, women, poetess) writers. A lady poet, she is part of the Early Modern women writers, and . Her part in history was not appreciated until first Wordsworth, and then Edmund Gosse, noted her in his criticism. She can be considered part of the canon of early modern women writers during the renaissance and renaissance women writers.