Lanyer, Aemilia - Barbara K. Lewalski (essay date 1985)
Barbara K. Lewalski (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: Lewalski, Barbara K. “Of God and Good Women: The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer.” In Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works, edited by Margaret Patterson Hannay, pp. 203-24. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1985.
[In the following essay, Lewalski admires Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum for its “quite remarkable feminist conceptual frame.”]
A volume of religious poems published in 1611, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, was written by a gentlewoman who identified herself on her title page as “Mistris Aemilia Lanyer, Wife to Captaine Alfonso Lanyer, servant to the Kings Majestie.”1 Since published women poets were so very rare in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, the volume invites attention on that score alone.2 But beyond this, it has considerable intrinsic interest as a defense and celebration of good...
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