num_pages: 192
description: Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as well as the first country house poem published in England. Almost completely neglected until very recently, her work changes our perspective on Jacobean poetry and contradicts the common assumption that women wrote nothing of serious interest until much later. Mistress and friend of influential Elizabethan courtiers, Lanyer gives us a glimpse of the ideas and aspirations of a talented middle class Renaissance woman.
language: English
title: Salve Deus Rex Judæorum
titlecomplete: Salve Deus Rex Judæorum
genres: Fiction, Religion, Poetry, 17th Century, School, Female Authors, Read For School, Feminism, Classics, Christian
ratings_count: 340
publisher: Oxford University Press