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Lady Mary Wroth (née Sidney; 18 October 1587 [1] – 1651/3) was an English noblewoman and a poet of the English Renaissance. A member of a distinguished literary family, Lady Wroth was among the first female English writers to have achieved an enduring reputation.
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is a sonnet sequence by the English Renaissance poet Lady Mary Wroth, first published as part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania in 1621, but subsequently published separately. [1] It is the second known sonnet sequence by a woman writer in England (the first was by Anne Locke). [2]
Probably the first full crown of sonnets in English is Lady Mary Wroth's A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love which is from circa 1620. [4] The children's book A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson also follows the form of a heroic crown of sonnets. [5] Another well-known and frequent author of contemporary crowns of sonnets is Marilyn Hacker.
Wroth, Mary (1640). "The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania. Written by the right honorable the Lady Mary Wroath. Daughter to the right noble Robert Earle of Leicester. And neece to the ever famous, and renowned Sr. Phillips Sidney knight. And to ye most exele[n]t Lady Mary Countesse of Pembroke late deceased".
Love's Victory is a Jacobean era pastoral closet drama written circa 1620 by English Renaissance writer Lady Mary Wroth. The play is the first known original pastoral drama and the first original dramatic comedy written by a woman. [1] It is written primarily in rhyming couplets.
Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621), 83 sonnets, included in Urania. Other English and Scottish sonnet collections and sequences of the period include: Anne Lok (Lock, or Locke), Meditation of a Penitent Sinner (1560), 26 sonnets of a devotional nature based on Psalm 51, the first known sonnet sequence in English.
Poetry is often referred to as an art, and it is one, but it’s also a practical tool. It can jostle your brain into new thoughts, change your mood with only a few words, keep you company like an ...
Nota bene: Authors of poetry are the focus of this list, though many of these writers worked in more than one genre. The seventh sonnet of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, from a manuscript in Wroth's own hand, c. 1620