female poets
Distaff literary artists
Women who write poetry.
The phrase is straightforward but often criticized as redundant—poets already includes women, so specifying female poets can imply that "poet" defaults to male.
Literary discussions increasingly prefer simply "poets" or "women poets" when gender is relevant to the context.
- SapphoAncient Greek woman poet
- African-AmericanU.S. ethnic identity category
- lyric poetryMusical personal verse form
- Christian themesIdeas rooted in gospel
- nature imageryNatural world representations
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- Women WritersJane Austen, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Anne Bronte
- women's poetrySylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, poetesses, feminist poetry
- women's writingVirginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath
- 18th-century women's writingJane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, women writers, literary salons
- Early Women Writers
- historical womenCleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie