Poems of Lady Mary Wroth (Revised)

by Mary Wroth and Josephine A. Roberts

Book Overview

Although her poems are little know today, Lady Mary Wroth was one of the most accomplished women writers of the English Renaissance. Her poems were circulated among many of the leading authors of her time, including Ben Johnson, who praised her work for its profound understanding of the nature of romantic love. Lady Mary's sonnet cycle, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, was the first English sequence to be written from a women's perspective. The Countesse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807117994
• ISBN13: 9780807117996
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"