The Poems of Aphra Behn: A Selection

by Aphra Behn and Janet Todd

Aphra Behn (1640-89) was a popular poet, author of the influential novel Oroonoko, and one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theater. Behn led an unusually active and eventful life for a woman of her era, traveling widely--to Surinam in 1663 and to Antwerp in 1666, where Charles II sent her as a spy during the Anglo-Dutch war. Returning to England she spent some time in a debtor's prison and subsequently devoted herself to writing,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814782167
• ISBN13: 9780814782163
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"