Renaissance Women Poets by Mary Sidney Paperback Book 9780140424096

Whitneys two volumes of verse miscellany quotSweet Nosegayquot 1573 and quotThe Copy of a Letterquot 1567 were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with vernacular sources As well a selection of her original poetry this volume includes Mary Sidneys version of the Psalms of David and Petrachs quotTriumph of Deathquot