Roberts, Josephine A., and Lady Mary Wroth. “Introduction and Notes”. The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, Louisiana State University Press, 1983, pp. 3 - 75, 219.
18-19
Joshua Sylvester
Standard Name: Sylvester, Joshua
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Besides this, Henry Thynne
, son of Viscount Weymouth
of Longleat House (nephew by marriage of Anne Finch
, and father of the future Lady Hertford
), taught ESR
French and Italian. She read very... |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Mary Wroth | In 1613 LMW
was praised in verse by George Wither
and Joshua Sylvester
. Most of these poets chose to celebrate her mind, even more than her beauty. (So, besides those named, did William Drummond |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Bradstreet | AB
's published volume, The Tenth Muse, is dominated by her two most ambitious works, long composite poems in pentameter couplets: Quaternions, written before 1642, and An Exact Epitome of the Four Monarchies... |
| Publishing | Lady Mary Wroth | A complimentary remark of Joshua Sylvester
about LMW
implies that she was circulating her writings in manuscript by this date. |
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