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Article: The Poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen Family.(Review)
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- March 22, 1999
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SELWYN, David, ed., The Poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen Family. Iowa City, Iowa: U of Iowa P in association with the Jane Austen Society, 1997. xvii, 106 pp. $12.95.
David Selwyn's compilation of all Jane Austen's poetry and most of the poems written by other members of the Austen family looks like the traditional "slender book of verse"--appealing in its format to both the hand and eye. The fifty or so short poems--about twenty of them written by Jane Austen herself--included in this well-edited paperback volume will not revolutionize our understanding of her work. But in bringing all the poems together for the first time, Selwyn has performed a significant ...
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