# Renaissance Women Poets

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- Book: [Renaissance Women Poets](https://www.bookquiver.com/aemilia-lanyer/renaissance-women-poets) ([Renaissance Women Poets.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/aemilia-lanyer/renaissance-women-poets.md))
- Authors: [Aemilia Lanyer](https://www.bookquiver.com/aemilia-lanyer), [Isabella Whitney](https://www.bookquiver.com/isabella-whitney), [Mary Sidney](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-sidney)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4042-409-6
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2001-01-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, 'Sweet Nosegay' (1573) and 'The Copy of a Letter' (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with popular and vernacular sources, and reflect the growing literary appetites of the urban population. As well a selection of her original poetry, this volume includes Sidney's version of the Psalms of David and Petrach's 'Triumph of Death'. Lanyer's poetry is devotional and is the most single-minded and explicit inits advocacy of female spirituality and virtue. Included here are 'Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum' and 'The Description of Cooke-ham'.