Authors: Aemilia Lanyer, Aemelia Lanyer, Susanne Woods
ISBN-13: 9780195083613, ISBN-10: 019508361X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: September 1993
Edition: 1st Edition
Vice President and Dean of Franklin & Marshall College, Susanne Woods is also Director of the Women Writers Project at Brown University, where she taught for many years.
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as well as the first country house poem published in England. Almost completely neglected until very recently, her work changes our perspective on Jacobean poetry and contradicts the common assumption that women wrote nothing of serious interest until much later. Mistress and friend of influential Elizabethan courtiers, Lanyer gives us a glimpse of the ideas and aspirations of a talented middle class Renaissance woman.
Foreword | ||
Introduction | ||
Maps | ||
Textual Introduction | ||
To the Queenes most Excellent Majestie | 3 | |
To the Lady Elizabeths Grace | 11 | |
To all vertuous Ladies in generall | 12 | |
To the Ladie Arabella | 17 | |
To the Ladie Susan, Countesse Dowager of Kent, and Daughter to the Duchesse of Suffolke | 18 | |
The Authors Dreame to the Ladie Marie, the Countesse Dowager of Pembrooke | 21 | |
To the Ladie Lucie, Countesse of Bedford | 32 | |
To the Ladie Margaret Countesse Dowager of Cumberland | 34 | |
To the Ladie Katherine Countesse of Suffolke | 36 | |
To the Ladie Anne, Countesse of Dorcet | 41 | |
To the Vertuous Reader | 48 | |
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum | 51 | |
The Description of Cooke-ham | 128 | |
To the doubtfull Reader | 137 |