Lanyer, Aemilia (Vol. 83) | Debra Rienstra (essay date 2001)
Debra Rienstra (essay date 2001)
SOURCE: Rienstra, Debra. “Dreaming Authorship: Aemilia Lanyer and the Countess of Pembroke.” In Discovering and (Re)Covering the Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric, edited by Eugene R. Cunnar and Jeffrey Johnson, pp. 80-102. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2001.
[In the following essay, Rienstra examines the influence of Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke, on Lanyer’s writing.]
Twenty years after A. L. Rowse “discovered” Aemilia Lanyer's substantial, peculiar body of religious poetry, her work has recovered from its initial presentation as a Shakespeare-related curiosity to an established fixture in the sub-canon of early modern women's writing. Her Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum exemplifies literary culture of the early seventeenth century with its multiple-dedication scattershot at patronage, its deploying of scriptural authority, and its keen attentiveness to the social...
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