Women Poets of the Renaissance

Autorentext
Marion Wynne-Davies teaches English Literature at the University of Dundee. She is the author of Women andArthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword (1996) and co-editor of Renaissance Drama by Women (Routledge, 1995).

Klappentext
Although women of the Renaissance were expected to be "chaste, silent and obedient," many women poets risked the disapproval of their own society and transcended the strictures of contemporary female behavior in words that still resonate today. Their meditations on the danger and sufferings of motherhood and their descriptions of the vagaries of love, while couched in the formal style of Renaissance poetry, often appear startlingly close to modern experience. As a consequence, the range of poetry produced by Renaissance women is remarkably broad. In "Women Poets of the Renaissance" the poetry of these women is collected for the first time in an anthology that offers the twentieth-century reader a fresh and unique approach to literature of the period.

Zusammenfassung
Although women of the Renaissance were expected to be chaste, silent and obedient, many women poets risked the disapproval of their own society and transcended the strictures of contemporary female behavior in words that still resonate today. Their meditations on the danger and sufferings of motherhood and their descriptions of the vagaries of love, while couched in the formal style of Renaissance poetry, often appear startlingly close to modern experience. As a consequence, the range of poetry produced by Renaissance women is remarkably broad. In Women Poets of the Renaissance the poetry of these women is collected for the first time in an anthology that offers the twentieth-century reader a fresh and unique approach to literature of the period.

Inhalt
Chronology Introduction Isabella Whitney--Her Will to London Elizabeth I--Poems Anne Cecil de Vere--Epitaphs Anne Dowriche--The French History Mary Sidney--Poems, The Tragedy of Antonie, Psalm Translations Aemilia Lanyer--Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, The Description of Cooke-Ham Rachel Speght--A Mouzell for Melastomus, Mortality's Memorandum Mary Wroth--Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Diana Primrose--A Chain of Pearl Alice Sutcliffe--Meditation Jane and Elizabeth Cavendish--The Concealed Fancies, Poems Anne Bradstreet--Poems Notes Notes on the Authors Select Bibliography

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