Emilia Lanier

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Emilia Lanier , (born in 1569 as Aemilia Bassano ; died 1645 ) was an English poet .

biography

Her father's employment as a royal musician made her family part of the lower nobility. Presumably she was educated at the home of Susan Bertie, the Countess of Kent. For several years she was the lover of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon , a cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and the patron saint of Shakespeare's theater company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men . When she was expecting a child from Hunsdon, she married the court musician Alfonso Lanier in 1592. From around 1597 she was in contact with the astrologer Simon Forman , who made detailed notes about her life in his diary.

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In 1611 Lanier published the collection of poems Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum . Along with Isabella Whitney, she is one of the first women in England to appear as an author. The collection contains poems dedicated to aristocratic women and a narrative poem describing the role of important women in the Christian tradition (Eve, the Virgin Mary, the wife of Pilate, the daughters of Zion, etc.). In the final poem, A Description of Cookham , an idealized English country house is drawn as a "feminist paradise".

The "English Short Title Catalog" lists eight surviving copies of the book. A copy of the first edition of the volume of poetry is in the British Museum. The 1611 edition was printed by Valentine Simmes . A copy can be viewed in the Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection.

literature

  • Dobson, Michael and Wells, Stanley: The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. OUP 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-280614-7
  • Grossmann, Marshall: Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon (Studies in the English Renaissance) . Lexington, KY. University Press of Kentucky 2009. ISBN 978-0813192666
  • Woods, Susanne: Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet . New York: Oxford University Press (1999) ISBN 978-0195124842

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dobson Oxford Companion. P. 251. Article: Emilia Lanier.
  2. ^ Dobson Oxford Companion. P. 151. Article Simon Forman.
  3. ↑ ESTC entry
  4. ^ Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

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personal data
SURNAME Lanier, Emilia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassano, Aemilia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1569
DATE OF DEATH 1645