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Oroonoko Aphra Behn

Oroonoko By Aphra Behn

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn


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Summary

A selection of Aphra Behn's stories and poems. The book helps the reader reassess a woman who achieved notoriety as well as fame in the 17th century. Paul Salzman is the author of English Prose Fiction 1558-1700: A Critical History and The New Diversity.

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Table of Contents

Part 1 Prose: Oroonoko; The fair jilt; Memoirs of the court of the King of Bantam; The history of the nun; The adventure of the black lady; The unfortunate bride. Part 2 Poetry: song - Love armed; On a juniper tree, cut down to make busks; A ballad on Mr J.H. to Amoret, asking why I was so sad; song - The invitation; song - When Jemmy first began to love; On the death of the late Earl of Rochester; To Mrs W. on her excellent verses; The disappointment; The dream - a song; A letter to a brother of the pen in tribulation; song - On her loving two equally; The counsel - a song; song - The surprise; On Mr J.H. in a fit of sickness; the cabal at Nickey Nackeys; song - Cease, cease, Amynta to complain; On the death of E. Waller, Esquire; To Mr Creech (under the name of Daphnis); A letter to Mr Creech at Oxford, written in the last great frost; To Lysander, who made some verses on a discourse of love's fire; On the first discovery of falsehood in Amintas; from Of Plants, Book VI; from Aesop's Fables (LXXI and LXXXVII); A pindaric on the death of our late sovereign; On desire - a pindaric; A pindaric to Mr P. who sings finely; To Alexis in answer to his poem against fruition; To the fair Clarinda, who made love to me, imagined more than woman; To Lysander, on some verses he writ; A pindaric poem to the Reverend Doctor Burnet.

Additional information

GOR001429531
9780192828927
0192828924
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19940601
319
N/A
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