...Danila Sokolov Abstract The language of arboreal metamorphosis in Lady Mary Wroth’s pastoral song “The Spring Now Come att Last” from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) may invoke the myth of Apollo and Daphne. However, the Ovidian narrative so central to Petrarchan poetics celebrates the male poet...

..., for instance, there was no modern cditiori of Mary Wroth’s sonnet sequence Pamf>hilialo Arn#>h?lanfJiu,,and, to my knowlege, the1 e still is none of 7’hP (hunturs of hlontgomurrur lhnzn, the extraordinarily ambitious prose romance to which the sequence was appcndcd. To this day, moreover...

.... Mary Sidney’s writerly self-image emerges in juxtaposition to Abraham Fraunce, Nicholas Breton, and Samuel Daniel (53-69); alongside the social history of Sir Thomas Overbury His Wife, Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania and Jon- son’s Epicoene elucidate the role of a courtly parlor game in establishing...

..., as writers themselves. Fifteen years ago, even Renaissance specialists would have had a difficult time naming a single woman writing between 1500 and 1660. Today, one would be hard pressed to find someone in the field who did not know the names of several: Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth, Elizabeth...

... Fletcher, Giles, the younger 1586 1610 24 Ford, John 1586 1606 20 Field, Nathan 1587 1612 25 Kynaston, Sir Francis 1587 1633 46 Wroth, Lady Mary 1587 1621 34 Abbot, John 1588 1623 35 Brathwaite, Richard 1588 1630 42 Reynolds, John 1588 1606 18 Wither, George...

... is not identical to Stella and thus cannot slake his desire. In an as-yet-unpublished essay she generously let me see, “The Transgressive Writing Strategies of Mary Wroth’s 1621 Countess of Mountgomeries Urania,” Shannon Miller writes of Antissia’s attempt to force a confession out of Pamphilia after seeing...

.... Alle pis worlde is wroth with mee. . . . (Vl, 91-92, 113-15) The chronology of Adam’s fall parallels that of Christ’s last hours on earth. Christ was also crucified “Be tyme of none,” according to both medieval legend17 and the anxious words of the second York...

... be, Soyne is she wroth. (183-89) Her reaction proves his fears were well founded, for she responds to his return with chiding, fully in the spirit of the Wife of Bath: Do tell me belife / where has thou thus long be? To dede may we dryfe / or lif...

....” (246-47) (3) W Y N N ERE : “Late be thi worde, wastoure,” quod wynnere the riche. (263) (4) WASTOURE:“3ee, wynnere,” quod wastoure, “thi wordes are vayne.. . .” (294) (5) WYNNERE:Bot than this wrechede wynnere full wrothely he...

...’ Shanter’s name, their blood) Waxed wroth. . . . Bernice Slote 207 because it was so much like the popular ballads and songs, for he neither idolized the primitive in art nor catered to the public taste. But if Keats discounted in himself what...

..., That no man, be they never so wrothe, To this notion one can add that mundus is often provided with the etymology undiqrce motus to suggest the world’s constant motion, a feature of Chaucer’s unstable and whirling structure. See, for example, Honorius of Augustodunensis, De imagine mundi, 3, PI...

.... 26 These multiple variations include Luke 19:41, Matthew 11:25, and John 16:33. 27 “Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under...

... admits that “I wille not . . . that the Duke of Bedforde be wroth wyth me for hir” (132).In light of the revolt against Henry N by Bowet’s predecessor, Archbishop Scrope, and the continuing tensions with Bedford over the popularity of the anti-Lancastrian Scrope cult at York, Kempe portrays...