| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| "Doe, as I have done" : Mary Carey's reciprocal relationship with the divine |
2007 |
478 |
As Mary Carey experienced numerous stillbirths and deaths of her infant children, she recorded her struggles to come to terms with God's will in a diary comprised of verse and prose. She defines her reciprocal relationship with God as one nearing equ... |
| Defensive virginity from Spenser to Milton. |
2010 |
1537 |
When the English Reformation began, it brought about not only religious changes, but also changes in social practices. With these changes, the virgin—a figure long associated with spiritual purity and lauded by the Catholic Church—was dislocated from... |
| The country-house poems of Lanyer, Jonson, Carew, and Marvell: emblems of social change in the seventeenth century AND both/and: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetic identity |
2012 |
1391 |
Often emphasizing the ancient practice of hospitality, country-house poems originate in medieval ideals. However, the country-house poetic genre possesses a malleability that belies these conservative origins. Poems by Aemilia Lanyer, Ben Jonson, Tho... |