"Th'unhappy Poet's Breast": Resisting violation in Anne Finch's "To the Nightingale"

Linker examines how Anne Finch uses the metaphor of the nightingale in the poem To The Nightingale. She presents a feminist critique in which human speech itself is presented as a phallo-linguistic weapon of patriarchal oppression.

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	English studies Vol. 88; no. 2; pp. 166 - 176
Main Author:	Linker, Laura Alexander
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Lisse Routledge 01-04-2007 Swets & Zeitlinger bv
Subjects:	Birds Feminism Finch, Anne Literary criticism Metaphor Poetry Rape
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