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Poems, translations, and correspondence

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke ; edited with introduction and commentary by Margaret P. Hannay, Noel J. Kinnamon, and Michael G. Brennan

(The collected works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, v. 1)

Clarendon Press, 1998

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Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, is the most important Elizabethan woman writer and patron outside the royal family. By astute use of the genres permitted to women, she supported the Protestant cause, introduced continental literary genres, expanded opportunities for later women writers, and influenced seventeenth-century lyric and drama by such writers as John Donne, George Herbert, Mary Wroth, and William Shakespeare. This scholarly edition in two volumes is the first to include all her extant works: Volume I prints her three original poems, the disputed `Dolefull Lay of Clorinda', her translations from Petrarch, Mornay, and Garnier, and all her known letters. Volume II contains her metrical paraphrases of Psalms 44-150. The edition also provides a biographical introduction, discussion of her sources and methods of composition, textual annotation, and a detailed commentary.

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  • [VOLUME I]
  • THE TEXTS
  • [VOLUME II]
  • THE TEXTS

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  • NCID
    BA35366385
  • ISBN
    • 0198112807
  • LCCN
    97025502
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxxi, 354 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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