Completing the conversation.
| Publisher | Associated University Presses |
| Publication | Shakespeare Studies |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0582-9399 |
| Issues per Year | 1 |
| Volume | v25 |
| Published | 1997-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | John Donne |
| Author | n/a | Maureen Quilligan |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Mary Wroth Lady |
To Take up the major early seventeenth-century poets together as a cohort, as Paul Alpers once suggested--not divided up into separate schools of "The Sons of Ben Jonson" and of "The Metaphysicals a la John Donne," but to see them in their quite local (new historicist) context--is not only an intrinsically interesting idea but one which has a great deal to suggest to the study of early modern women. To do so would also put us in a better position to be able to consider, for example, Lady Mary Wroth's writing as something other than the mere imitation of family members' outmoded styles,...
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