Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700)

Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700)
Author: Jane Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780199242573

This anthology represents a re-examination of its field, based on extensive archival research. Each woman's work is accompanied by a headnote which combines biographic information with some guidance as to the context, intended audience and genre.

Amey Hayward

Amey Hayward
Author: Dana Aspinall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351959263

The Females Legacy is the only surviving work of Amey Howard about whom very little is known. While rarely political or even topical, The Females Legacy generally conforms to much of the same militantly Protestant ideology of the sort Harris spent his life advocating. The volume contains twenty-six devotional poems nearly all of which feature a male speaker. Some are 'meditations' in which the speaker considers the import of an Old or New Testament narrative. Others are 'dialogues' between speakers who grapple with a sudden realisation of their own sinful natures and a biblical figure who introduces them to Christ's redemptive majesty. Interspersed amongst these two kinds of verse are a few other poems which directly address women or deploy them as protagonists. This edition reproduces the sole surviving copy of The Females Legacy held in the British Library.