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Frontis: Margaret Cavendish flanked by Minerva and Apollo, engraving by Abraham van Diepenbeeck. This image was commissioned by Cavendish and used as the frontispiece to several of her works.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?–1674, author. | Robbins, Michael, 1972– editor.

Title: Margaret Cavendish : selected poems / edited and with an introduction by Michael Robbins.

Description: New York : New York Review Books, [2019] | Series: New York Review Books Poets.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018036779 (print) | LCCN 2018051522 (ebook) | ISBN 9781681371597 (epub) | ISBN 9781681371580 (alk. paper)

Classification: LCC PR3605.N2 (ebook) | LCC PR3605.N2 A6 2019 (print) | DDC 821/.4—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018036779

ISBN 978-1-68137-159-7

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