Lanyer, Aemilia (Vol. 83) | Ann Baynes Coiro (essay date summer 1993)
Ann Baynes Coiro (essay date summer 1993)
SOURCE: Coiro, Ann Baynes. “Writing in Service: Sexual Politics and Class Position in the Poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Ben Jonson.” Criticism XXXV, no. 3 (summer 1993): 357-76.
[In the following essay, Coiro explores issues of gender, class, and authorship in Lanyer's poetry and compares her work to that of Ben Jonson.]
The growing and increasingly central interest in writings by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women is beginning to have some material effects on the literary profession. In the fifth edition of the Norton Anthology (published in 1986), for example, a literature teacher could find a couple of poems by Lady Mary Wroth, one psalm by the Countess of Pembroke, and two poems by Queen Elizabeth. In the just-published sixth edition (1993), the number of texts by women has significantly increased, both in number and variety. One notable change is the inclusion of Aemilia...
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