THE POEMS OF AEMILIA LANYER by Aemilia Lanyer ( 9780195083613 )

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Title:

THE POEMS OF AEMILIA LANYER
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By:

Aemilia Lanyer

Format:

Paperback

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019508361X

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9780195083613

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC

Pub. date:

1 January, 1993

Series:

Women Writers in English 1350-1850

Pages:

192

Synopsis:

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.

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2 halftones

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Oxford University Press Inc

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