Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Lanyer, Aemilia (Vol. 83) | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Jenkins, Hugh. “Petitions for Absolute Retreat: Genre and Gender in the Country-House Poems of Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Finch.” In Feigned Commonwealths: The Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community, pp. 146-73. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1998.

Analyzes “The Description of Cooke-ham” as a country-house poem, and compares it to poems by Anne Finch and Ben Jonson.

Keohane, Catherine. “‘That Blindest Weakenesse Be Not Over-Bold’: Aemilia Lanyer's Radical Unfolding of the Passion.” ELH 64, no. 2 (summer 1997): 359-90.

Examines recent critical interest in Lanyer and the manner in which she approached religious themes.

Woods, Susanne. “Ameilia Lanyer.” In Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers, edited by Susanne Woods and Margaret P. Hannay, pp. 155-63. New York: The Modern Language Association, 2000.

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