The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Volume I: Poems, Translations, and Correspondence

by Mary Sidney Herbert Pembroke and Mary Sidney

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and sister to Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important woman writer of the Elizabethan era outside the royal family. This scholarly edition in two volumes is the first to include all her extant works: Volume I prints her three original poems, the disputed "Dolefull Lay of Clorinda," her translations from Petrarch, Mornay, and Garnier, and all her known letters. Volume II contains her metrical paraphrases of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198112807
• ISBN13: 9780198112808
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"