Women Poets of the Renaissance

by Marion Wynne-Davies and Selected & edited by Wynne-Davies, Marion

Book Overview

Although women of the Renaissance were expected to be chaste, silent and obedient, many women poets risked the disapproval of their own society and transcended the strictures of contemporary female behavior in words that still resonate today. Their meditations on the danger and sufferings of motherhood and their descriptions of the vagaries of love, while couched in the formal style of Renaissance poetry, often appear startlingly close to modern experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415923506
• ISBN13: 9780415923507
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"