(2002) is Carol Ann Duffy’s seventh collection of poetry. The anthology is often overlooked in favour of its predecessor,
The World’s Wife(1999), described as the watershed of her career (Forbes 2002), but
Feminine Gospelsis an important part of Duffy’s literary corpus. “Carol Ann Duffy is arguably the nation’s favourite living poet” reads the quotation from contemporary British author Jeanette Winterson on the cover of Picador’s 2003 edition of
Feminine Gospels. A reviewer for the Poetry Foundation concurs that “Carol Ann Duffy is the most popular poet in the UK”, and that her empire ought to expand to the US (Tracy 2006: 337); Elaine Feinstein writes that the anthology presents “an odd, contemporary post-feminist courage; and perhaps that is the…
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Citation: Judge, Shelby, Shelby Judge. "Feminine Gospels". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 June 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10540, accessed 18 April 2024.]
