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Lanyer : a Renaissance woman poet
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ISBN: 0195124847 1280830859 0195352343 9780195352344 9780195124842 0197724833 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Aemilia Bassano Lanyer sought public fame as a poet in 1611, at the height of the largely misogynistic reign of James I. This book situates her life and work among the major poets of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

Aemilia Lanyer : Gender, Genre, and the Canon
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ISBN: 0813149371 9780813149370 9780813120492 0813182808 0813192668 9780813192666 9780813182803 Year: 2009 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,

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Aemilia Lanyer was a Londoner of Jewish-Italian descent and the mistress of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain. But in 1611 she did something extraordinary for a middle-class woman of the seventeenth century: she published a volume of original poems.Using standard genres to address distinctly feminine concerns, Lanyer's work is varied, subtle, provocative, and witty. Her religious poem ""Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"" repeatedly projects a female subject for a female reader and casts the Passion in terms of gender conflict. Lanyer also carried this concern with gender into the very structure of th

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