The Renaissance English Text Society is an association of scholars who wish to recover significant English writings of the period 1475-1640, especially those that have never been published or that have a special significance. Parallel to the Malone Society, which emphasizes dramatic texts, the Society emphasizes nondramatic prose or poetry. The following books were published either by or for the Society.
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The works of Anne Vaughan Lock, a sixteenth-century English poet, translator, and apologist whose works include the first sonnet sequence in English by a woman, have not been reprinted since the early seventeenth century. The edition presented here includes not only Lock's own poems and dedicatory epistles, such as one to the Duchess of Suffolk, but also her own translations, letters from John Knox, and versions of Psalm 51. All the texts are presented with commentary and textual notes. The text consists of seven books, some 4190 lines in heroic couplets. The poem was written at the command of King Charles I, to whom the printed edition was dedicated.