The poems of Aemilia Lanyer : Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum /
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| Author / Creator: | Lanyer, Aemilia |
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| Uniform title: | Works. 1993. |
| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. |
| Description: | li, 139 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Women writers in English 1350-1850 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1425986 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | li, 139 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0195080378 019508361X |