Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet [Hardcover]

Susanne Woods (Author)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press (July 29 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195124847
ISBN-13: 978-0195124842
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 458 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,812,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Woods provides not only a superb introduction to the life and art of the recently rediscovered English poet Aemilia Bassano Lanyer (1569-1645), but also an excellent general background of life at court in Lanyer's time....Informed and well considered, this title is not only the best single work on a neglected poet; thanks to the great depth of her research and her understanding of the period, Woods gives readers insight into an entire age. Highly recommended for all college and university libraries."--Choice

"Specialists in Lanyer should not be the only ones to greet Woods's latest book with enthusiasm...Students and teachers...will find this a most helpful resource. Likewise, those whose interest in literature by women has led them back in time to periods with which they are not entirely familiar will find this an excellent study, as it combines meticulous scholarship and close readings to situate Lanyer thematically and stylistically in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries."--Christianity and Literature

"In Lanyer, the poet...is treated to full, reliable, wholly professional and often very instructive critical examination. Even those with no feminist interests will benefit from such widely applicable analyses such as that in which we see the problems of iconography long established in a Catholic context revised for Reformation use."--Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance

"Woods has been a pioneer of Lanyer scholarship alongside Lewalski, and this study of Lanyer will further enliven the ongoing debate about Lanyer, the canon, and the merits of various approaches to literature, particularly literature by women. [Her] approach is thoughtful and creative, and it opens up Lanyer's poems in many ways that enrich our understanding of them. [Lanyer] must be of interest to all students of early modern literature and culture."--Journal of English and Germanic Philology

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Aemilia Bassano Lanyer published poetry to and for women in 1611, at the height of the largely misogynistic reign of James I. Her verse complements and extends our view of her contemporaries, such as Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne, whose work in turn provides a context for her unique and engaging voice. This book situates Lanyer within the rich tradition of Jacobean poetry.

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First Sentence
Aemilia Bassano was conceived in the spring of 1568, just as a much better known woman, Mary Queen of Scots, was planning her escape from Scotland into England, and Queen Elizabeth's cousin, Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, was made governor of Berwick and warden of the East Marches. Read the first page

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