19th and 20th Century Women Poets presents a selection of 100 poems by Emily Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Jennings, Carol Ann Duffy, and Eavan Boland. Introductions about the poets shed light on each selection. Notes and critical approaches on topics such as relationships, the spiritual perspective, individual voices, rhyme, rhythm, and form, support readings of the poems and show the links and contrasts in women's writing across two centuries.