Author: May Nelson PaulissenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Love Sonnets of Lady Mary Wroth
Author: May Nelson PaulissenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Love Sonnets of Lady Mary Wroth
Author: May Nelson PaulissenPamphilia to Amphilanthus
Author: Lady Mary WrothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (abridged)
Author: Lady Mary WrothPublisher: Medieval and Renaissance Texts
ISBN: 9780866984515
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first romance written by an Englishwoman, Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania is a literary tour de force in its own right. As the niece of Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Wroth was ideally situated as an observer and reporter of the social, literary, and political milieu of her time. This abridged modern-spelling edition, with a useful introduction and index of characters, makes this work newly accessible to general readers, students, and scholars.
The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth
Author: Josephine A. RobertsPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807117996
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Although her poems are little know today, Lady Mary Wroth was one of the most accomplished women writers of the English Renaissance. Her poems were circulated among many of the leading authors of her time, including Ben Johnson, who praised her work for its profound understanding of the nature of romantic love. Lady Mary's sonnet cycle, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, was the first English sequence to be written from a women's perspective. The Countesse of Montgomery's Urania, her romance interspersed with poetry, was one of the first works of prose fiction to be composed by an Englishwoman. In this complete edition of Lady Mary Wroth's verse, Josephine Roberts has brought together and annotated all 192 of the surviving poems, many of which have never been published before. As the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Sidney and Lady Barbara Gamage, Lady Mary took great pride in the Sidney literary heritage. During the years of her marriage she assumed the roles of both poet and patron, an example set for her by her father and her more famous uncle, Sir Philip Sidney. She further followed the precedent of her uncle by choosing for her own work the artistic forms that he had favored -- the sonnet sequence, pastoral romance, and pastoral drama. As a young woman, Lady Mary belonged to Queen Anne's intimate circle, but in the years following her husband's death she suffered a precipitous decline in social status. She violated the social taboos of her age by becoming the mistress of her first cousin, William Herbert, earl of Pembroek, and bearing him two illegitimate children. Her artistic efforts aroused equal controversy when, after the publication of her prose romance, the Urania, several prominent noblemen attacked her for portraying their private lives under the guise of fiction. Despite these obstacles -- and the added burden of the unpaid debts that were the legacy of her disappointing marriage -- Lady Mary maintained an independent spirit and trusted in an ability to make her own decisions. In her prose works she lashed out at the hypocrisies of life at court; in her poetry she wrote of more personal concerns -- the treacherousness of emotion, the eternal elusiveness of love. Rising above well-worn Elizabethan conceits, the best of Lady Mary's poems reveal an ambivalence toward romance and a wise understanding of the vicissitudes of human emotion.
Poems
Author: Lady Mary WrothPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This is the first modernized edition of the poems of Lady Mary Wroth. Born circa 1587 and married in 1604, Lady Mary was part of the Queen's entourage at the court of King James I. The poems reproduced here are from Urania, a chivalric romance published in 1621, and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, a sonnet sequence.
Desiring Voices
Author: Mary B. MoorePublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809323074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Moore (English, Marshall U.) analyzes and contextualizes the Petrarchan love sonnet sequences of Gaspara Stampa, Louise Labe, Lady Mary Wroth, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Close readings of the poems are accompanied by theory and criticism regarding constructs of women, historical events, and biographical material, illuminating the poets, Petrarchism as a convention, ideas about women, and the range and limitations of female roles as erotic subjects and objects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Author: Philip SidneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Author: Jane Kingsley-SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107170656
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.
The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania
Author: Lady Mary WrothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romances
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description