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The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer - Lanyer, Aemilia, and Woods, Susanne (Editor)
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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 ...

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The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer 1993, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195083613

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