Anne Killigrew

• Pastoral Dialogue, 1686 (posthumous)

  Alcander: “Remember when you love from that same hour

  Your peace you put in love’s power

  From that same hour from which him you laws receive"
• Pastoral Dialogue, 1686


  “yoke” and “cruel fetters"
• Alexandreis, 1686


  “O Queen of Verse, I’ll not ungrateful be

  My choicest hours to thee I’ll dedicate"
• Alexandreis

  “Nor will it from his conquests derogate

  A female pen his acts did celebrate"
• Alexandreis

  Some pitying muse
• Alexandreis

  “Th’heroic queen (whose high pretence to war

  Cancelled the bashful laws and nicer bar

  Of modesty which did her sex restrain"
• Brian Elliot, 2009: Anne Killigrews poetry offers a window into mind of a woman in the Restoration and sheds new light on the complicated social and artistic world of which the poet was a part