It was probably published soon afterwards, though the title-page says 1611. Handsome copies of the title-poem without all of its accompanying or supporting poems were given as gifts to Prince Henry
(eldest son of James I
Literary responses
Aemilia Lanyer
AL
suffered the fate of many early women writers in being not so much discouraged as ignored. Despite the presentation copies, it does not appear that her splendid poem had a wide circulation. When she...
Literary responses
Anne Locke
Charles A. Huttar
has praised AL
's sermon translation as readable, clear, and energetic—qualities in her original which it would have been easy to lose in translating. Editor Kel Morin-Parsons
calls the sonnets her most...
Occupation
Aemilia Lanyer
Her biographer Susanne Woods
suggests that AL
may have been employed to teach music to the countess's daughter, the future diarist Lady Anne Clifford
.
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Publishing
Anne Dowriche
AD
's work is available in The Early Modern Englishwoman facsimile series from Ashgate
, edited by Susanne Woods
, Betty Travitsky
and Patrick Cullen
. The account of her in the Dictionary of Literary...
Timeline
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Texts
Primrose, Diana. “A Chaine of Pearle”. The Poets I, edited by Susanne Woods, Betty Travitsky, and Patrick Cullen, Facsimile, Ashgate, 2001.
Melvill, Elizabeth. “Ane Godlie Dreame”. The Poets, I, edited by Susanne Woods, Betty Travitsky, and Patrick Cullen, Ashgate, 2001.
Woods, Susanne. “Anne Lock and Aemilia Lanyer: A Tradition of Protestant Women Speaking”. Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, edited by Amy Boesky and Mary Thomas Crane, University of Delaware Press, 1999, pp. 171-84.
Woods, Susanne, and Aemilia Lanyer. “Introduction”. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer, Oxford University Press, 1993, p. xv - li.
Woods, Susanne. Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Lanyer, Aemilia. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer. Editor Woods, Susanne, Oxford University Press, 1993.