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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $17.50
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Aemilia Lanyer
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.3
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Publication Date: 1993-09-16
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: 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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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $9.32
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Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Penguin Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.30809287
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Publication Date: 2001-07-01
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Reading Level: 412
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Description: Social convention may have prevented Renaissance women writers from openly taking part in the political and religious debates of their day, but they found varied and innovative ways to intervene. Collecting the work of three great poets-Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, and Aemilia Lanyer-this volume repositions women writers of the Renaissance by presenting their poems in the context of their history and culture. Whitney's poems offer the only glimpse into her life, express a concern for women's lack of social and economic power, and powerfully evoke sixteenth-century London. Sidney produced potent translations of Petrarch's works and the Psalms, as well as original verse. Lanyer wrote poems that advocate and praise female virtue and Christian piety, but reflect a desire for an idealized, classless world. The strong and original voices of these three women-each from different social, cultural, and historical strata-demonstrate the emergence of a new female identity during the Renaissance and broaden the common notions of English Literature's golden age.
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Price: $175.00
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Sale: $127.75
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Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Isabella Whitney::Anne Dowriche::Elizabeth Colville::Aemilia Lanyer::Rachel Speght::Diana Primrose::James Martin
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Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.0099287
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Publication Date: 2002-02
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Reading Level: 330
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Description: Isabella Whitney is the earliest Englishwoman known to have written original secular poetry in English for publication. "The Copy of a Letter" contains four poems written in the personae of persons jilted in love. The only known copy of this volume is held at the Bodleian Library and is reproduced here. Whitney's second collection "A Sweet Nosgay" contains poetry in traditional stanzas and in prose format. Reproduced here is the unique copy held at the British Library. "The French Historie" by Anne Dowriche takes as its subject three events from the religious wars in France. Reproduced here is the copy of "The French Historie" held at the Huntington Library and appended are two short poems thought to be hers. "Ane Godlie Dreame, Compylit in Scottish Meter" is Elizabeth Melville's first-person account of a pilgrim who is guided through the afterworld. While many of the variations in the different editions are merely accidental, there are some substantial changes. As an aid to bibliographic study of the poem therefore, copies of the following four editions are reproduced here: 1603 National Library of Scotland; 1604 National Library of Scotland; 1606 Huntington Library; 1620 British Library. Aemilia Lanyer was the first woman writing in English to produce a substantial volume of poetry designed to be printed and to attract patrongage. "The Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" was published in 1611 and is arguably the first genuinely feminist publication in England. The edition reproduced here is held at the Huntington Library. Rachel Speght is best known for her responses to the anti-woman tracts that formed a distinct genre in the Tudor and Stuart periods. These are reproduced in Part One of the "Early Modern Englishwoman" series. Her other published work is the poetry reproduced in this volume "Mortalities Memorandum" (1621), consisting of the title poem (dealing with the personal reality of death) preceded by "A Dreame", an allegory describing her thirst for learning. The text reproduced here is held by the Huntington Library. Very little is known of Diana Primrose. "A Chaine of Pearle" is the gift of a pearl necklace, consisting of ten pearls (poems), from Primrose to all noble ladies and gentlewomen. Reprinted here is the Huntington Library copy.
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