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Emilia Lanier / Emilia Lanyer. Emilia Lanier [a] ( née Aemilia Bassano; 1569–1645) was the first woman in England to assert herself as a professional poet, [1] through her volume Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( Hail, God, King of the Jews, 1611). Attempts have been made to equate her with Shakespeare 's "Dark Lady".
1995. Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women is a book of poems by Maya Angelou, published in 1995. [ 1] The poems in this short volume were published in Angelou's previous volumes of poetry. "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," and "Our Grandmothers" appeared in And Still I Rise (1978) and "Weekend Glory" appeared in Shaker, Why Don't ...
Proverbs 31 is the 31st and final chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [ 1] Verses 1 to 9 present the advice which King Lemuel 's mother gave to him, about how a just king should reign. The remaining verses detail the attributes of a good wife or an ideal woman (verses 10–31).
The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer during the fourteenth century.. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales.
To Her Inconstant Lover. Isabella Whitney 's 16th-century poem " To her unconstant Lover " is the first in her first book The Copy of a Letter, Lately Written in Meter by a Young Gentlewoman: to her Unconstant Lover (1567). The speaker is Whitney herself, who is, as the title of the poem indicates, writing to her unfaithful, or inconstant lover.
The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 stanzas, [1] it is one of the longest poems in the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian ...
During a commencement address at Columbia College in 1795 the influence of the virtuous women was said to be "a never-failing antidote against the most dangerous temptations of vice." Charlotte Temple and other seduction novels presented "virtuous woman" characters as "antidotes" to the disordered conduct of male character's like Montraville. [19]
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( Latin: Hail, God, King of the Jews) is a volume of poems by English poet Emilia Lanier published in 1611. It was the first book of original poetry published by a woman in England. It was also the first book of poetry written by an English woman in an effort to attract a patron. [ 1]