On Bradstreet’s “The Author to her Book”
Bradstreet’s “The Author to her Book,” published in 1678 in the second edition of Bradstreet’s Several Poems, according to the editorial note, sums up some...
Confessions of a Cross-dressing Nun
After St. Euphrosina’s father leaves her cell, thinking he is leaving the cell of a (to him) random cloistered male monk that the abbott (inexplicably)...
Crystal Coldness in Wroth’s P. to A.
The third from the final of Wroth’s crown of sonnets, F4, in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus contains imagery of, well, images—specifically the “lov’d Image of thy...
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream, with Lady Mary Wroth
Lady Mary Wroth’s sonnet sequence, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, begins in the dark and by the end of this first section we are studying, P36 (within...
Footnoting Lanyer’s Salve Deus
First I must get out of the way how pointless I found 80-90 percent of the footnotes in Salve Dues. The ones that provided detail...