To my beautiful sister by Joseph Kroon [insert poem here]
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In order, Lanyer dedicates her poem to: Queen Anne, her daughter Princess Elizabeth, “all vertuous Ladies in generall,” Lady Arabella Stuart, the dowager Countess of Kent, the dowager Countess of Pembroke (who receives the longest dedication), the Countess of Bedford, the dowager Countess of Cumberland (who receives attention throughout the text, especially in “The Description of Cooke-ham”), the … independent living running her estates until she died at 86.) Read in public at your own poem. Once a decision is made on how to tag the non-authorial paratexts and they have been tagged, there are many other topics to research. She spent the last four years of her life in the Tower of London, where she
Less than 5 occurrences, various: 22% specifically says the book argues "that all women deserve not to be blamed" and
It teaches us that virtue is supreme and super lasting. Read in public at your own poem. The distinguished titles broke down as follows: 2. Listen to the poem read by Richard Dutton and watch images of Penshurst place today. “Virtue” is a metaphysical poem where Herbert deals with a simple but fundamental truth of existence. What interested me most about this text was at the very end and not even written by Gooch at all. Am I destined to correct the fallacies of this harsh reality? To The Vertuous Reader Poem by Aemilia Lanyer. It is beautiful. Two…he has a physical encounter with a fanstalker and permanently changes Freddies outlook on sex and life. Reader" and returning in the main poem, itself. The cataloguing of ‘women worthies’ is a familiar tactic in the querelle des femmes, and its importance as a rhetorical strategy within Salve Deus is signaled by Lanyer’s rehearsal in the prose preface ‘To the Vertuous Reader’ of the names of some of the key female Biblical figures she will represent in the narrative poem. 1. Your email address will not be published. Spenser also used (As You Like It II.vii and Amoretti Sonnett #54). older women whose protection and encouragement had shaped Lanyers earliest days and
Jesus in terms which situate his life in a social universe of women. (Mary Sidney,
Alfarabi’s virtuous city neither distorts nor improves Plato’s republic, but completely departs from it. Earl: 8% James eldest daughter, Princess Elizabeth (1596-1662) bears a name which clearly
wise and virtuous women, to bring downe their pride and ar-rogancie. struggle against their enemies. There were some rare cases where the authorial attribution was baked into the title, but as a general rule NAPTs in the WWP textbase have signatures as authorial attributions, so looking for dedications that contained To my beautiful sister by Joseph Kroon [insert poem here]
. Countess Dowager of Pembroke, and Margaret, Countess Dowager of Cumberland, are the other
dreamer discusses the poems chief topic, often unsuccessfully striving to understand
To the Doubtfull Reader. had ambitions). What is the central idea of the poem Virtue? architectural function of these dedication poems in the minds of the dedicatees, and in
The cataloguing of ‘women worthies’ is a familiar tactic in the querelle des femmes, and its importance as a rhetorical strategy within Salve Deus is signaled by Lanyer’s rehearsal in the prose preface ‘To the Vertuous Reader’ of the names of some of the key female Biblical figures she will represent in the narrative poem. Poem to the Reader Since I was thirteen, I have wondered who I am. My lengthy process of trial and error was at times frustrating, but it did make me acutely aware what was and what wasn’t a non-authorial paratext. This is a pessimistic set of poems that mostly deal with the author’s loss and sadness. This method would also provide more specificity for paratexts where the NAPT author already has an entry in the personography: This is shown in the titles with prepositions like “to,” “on,” or “upon.” The most common first word of the title was, unsurprisingly, “to” with 71 instances or 57%. its concerns toward "some women" who enviously attack other womens work. The pieces have strong titles such as “Black Woman I Love Inspirational food for the soul describes “Proverbs 31:The Virtuous Black Woman Volume 1” by Author Russel Blake and published by Man of Psalms Publishing. I took to the digital stacks of already published and in-progress texts in Women Writers Online to see what I could find. I defined distinction very broadly as anyone who had a title of any sort. How risky is this in a
I found myself unable to put it down–I read the whole thing in a single sitting. Refine any search. https://lifeofaemilia.blogspot.com/2010/05/to-virtuous-reader.html Especially note the three stanzas beginning with "What difference was there
Muriel: U.S. of negotiations between Lanyer and the patrons in which she tries to weld them, one by
So it wouldn’t be very fruitful to look there. establish each patron as someone whose intellect demands the poem's creation and whose
when the world began" (ll. The poems to which I have, all my life, been most ardently drawn are poems of the kind I have described, poems of intimate selection or collusion, poems to which the listener or reader makes an essential contribution, as recipient of a confidence or an outcry, sometimes … The authorship genders broke down as: 5% female, 36% male, and 59% gender unknown, thus showing my hypothesis was plausible. I had many hypotheses about the purpose, authors, and significance of these texts, but I had to pare them down to match the scale of a summer internship. The reader builds a nest for the poem in her mind; she repeats the poem to herself over and over, letting it stick. Virtuous May 2019 My Friend the Moon. Challenging Colonial Discourse Through TEI Markup in Maria Callcott’s “Letters”, Announcing new additions to “Thirty Years, Thirty Ideas”, “A Most Illustrious and Distinctive Career”, A Word Embedding Model of One’s Own: Modern Fiction from Materialism to Spiritualism, Entity Linking Research Paper Works with WWO Data. This post was authored by Anna Kroon, University of New Haven class of 2019, who held an internship at the WWP during the summer of 2017. self "author" in the title. Whats
Front matter comes first and often holds dedications and other prefatory materials. That, combined with my beginner’s knowledge of the WWP encoding, made my XPath searching very slow to start. This week we’re making a return visit to Philip Sidney’s brilliant and seminal sonnet-sequence, Astrophil and Stella. I used some logic and knowledge of general publication formatting to create my first few queries. "SDRJ," its dedication poems, and "To
Being so new to the WWP encoding guidelines I had to ask “is there anything special I do with a poem not written by the author?” The answer was not what I had expected from such a detail-oriented project: no. After this I went back to the model of my first query. When scrolling through texts I quickly learned that a closing byline or signature was more common than an opening one beneath the heading. Texts are very broadly split into three main sections: front matter, main body, and back matter. This success made me sweat a little—maybe what I was researching had already been done and didn’t need me endlessly XPath searching. From the title and the contents of the individual non-authorial paratexts it is apparent that this volume was published posthumously and Mrs. Robinson was a well-known and well-loved author. Do you not know who I am? challenges all Lanyers other readers, including ourselves, but specifically directs
Cite two quotations of direct and indirect characterization that imply this woman is not as "worthy," or virtuous, as the speaker first indicates. Neither found the other a suitable match: she was independent-minded, literate, and
The poem speaks to each and every reader on what it means to become a complete man and how he … I looked at the other first words and considered a word significant if there were more than 5 occurrences. Lanyers biography. 2) "To the Lady Elizabeths Grace": Annes and
Then remember that her days as Hunsdens mistress in her
poem also emphasizes Dorsets descent from her mother, and her exemplary union of
This essay sets forth a model for teaching Dante’s poem as an experiment in virtuous friendship that can transform the classroom into a workshop for the … My results helped me to see the issue with my search: there was only one resulting dedication, written by the author to a princess. Dowager Countess of Montgomery. Instead of values that indicated the NAPT author’s gender we would create general personography entries for @resp to point to, expanding on the existing entry for “unknown author” to include unknown male, female, collective, and nonbinary authors. 3) "To all vertuous Ladies in generall": First, read
Explain what a reader might infer about the woman's character. It comprises a spirited defense of Eve (and, by extension, all women), elegant praises for her female patrons, a catalogue of virtuous women of the ancient world, and closes with the first "country house" poem written by a … At times, this meant looking to the publication information or the personographic data to make sure the initials were not hers. Even so, it’s not a bad poem, it just doesn’t have the same level of punch and polish as the rest of the poems in the collection. Read, review and discuss the The Death of Virtuous poem by Anna Laetitia Barbauld on Poetry.com. Since I clearly proved the existence and abundance of NAPTs in the WWP textbase, the next step was to discuss markup to make the non-authorial content distinct from the authorial content. indicates her parents ambitions in the years before Elizabeth Is death without
What do we think of when we consider ‘virtue’ or being virtuous? I added this on to my original search creating: //front//div[@type="prefatory"]//div[@type="poem"]//lg[@type="para"] She made a daring escape, dressed as a man, and was captured at sea off
Two…he has a physical encounter with a fanstalker and permanently changes Freddies outlook on sex and life. However, many of these were not the highlighted passages found by XPath. Login . As the simple “ded” search was very successful, I thought another simple search would be a good course of action. a dynastic heir in 1603. First, think about your own papers'
Everyone should read this book because he brings to virtuous each and every aspect and the The considerable number of gender unknown authors comes from the fact that authors would sign their paratext with only their initials or a gender non-specific abbreviation. While I knew that there would be many non-authorial paratexts hidden under a lot of other odd prefatory material, this was such a large grouping that it would take a single person with a time constraint far too long to parse through. From there we could see how the new markup interacts with the existing markup to ensure that it doesn’t cause any issues. As of writing this post, I have found over 120 unique non-authorial paratexts from 30 different larger texts. This could be anyone from a king to a judge considered “honourable.” Of the 126 cataloged non-authorial paratexts, 24 (or 19%) were written by someone whom I defined as distinguished. This orientation toward stickiness explains the obnoxious prevalence of rhymes in poetry, though similar devices exist at all levels of depth beneath the surface—past the poem’s sound structure into its network of semantic echoes and “all the way down.” I performed several other searches, including reviews of the back matter, until I had a pool of nearly 130 unique non-authorial paratexts, which seemed like a comfortable amount to make a case for tagging these texts and a significant enough sample size to analyze. I started off looking to see if Pasquin’s poem was not in fact a singular phenomenon. aristocracy to claim virtue for their own as a right of birth (see Chaucer,
constant tending. a body in my arms, I am a craving spirit, the way the dead stream along the walls of. The Web's Largest Resource for Poets, Poems & Poetry. Since we were not able to come to a decision on this topic I was not able to mark up nor have a an automatic routine parse through lots of data. As a general rule NAPTs are written to or about the author of the main text praising her abilities, virtuousness, or life. How might her
Texts with a significant number (more than 5) of NAPTs are published posthumously. I read his book in one sitting and during my reading I felt the love of God and the love of an African-American man for women. I was dismayed to find that I was looking at my previous search results except broken down by line group rather than any sort of new material. ... Line-by-line modern translations of every Shakespeare play and poem. 3. This meant creating an attribute that would be used on a with a set of values that indicated the paratext author’s assumed gender. I had not yet realized that these were two values that were essentially describing the same level of textual divisions and that dedications would not necessarily be nested within more general prefatory textual divisions. I brainstormed many different hypotheses that I wanted to look into, but settled on three. Find related themes, quotes, symbols, characters, and more. To the Right Honourable, Virtuous, Heroical Reader ... To begin, I worked on Poems on Various Subjects by Elizabeth Sarah Gooch. We could also used this marked-up data to perform simpler searches for NAPTs. Typically, the dreamer finds
And then the children grew up, I was weaned from that. The title gives us a lot to think about before we’ve even got into the poem. She appeals to her readers to allow sincerity to reflect more accurately their own value, rather than seeking to please men who have fickle taste. Here he sings the glory of a virtuous soul which survives all the transient objects in the world. How does Lanyers poem use that relationship to set up the Princesss
Marquis: 4% 5) "To the Ladie Susan, Countesse Dowager of Kent, and
As I walk on this land full of sin, I question my very existence. (Sidney) Countess Dowager of Pembroke, Anne Clifford and her mother, Lady Margaret,
My final hypothesis was going to be researched with the use of the WWP’s counting XQuery and the experimental paratext markup. 10) "To the Vertuous Reader": This prose piece directly
Lanyers poem
While I went through my first set of results I noticed some of the line groups had a @type of “para.” In the hazy fog of researching NAPTs I assumed that this was an irregularly used value for paratexts. Poem to the Reader Since I was thirteen, I have ... virtuous, stuffed to the spirit-tips with touch. Elizabeth would have been 15 when the poem was printed, and
For example, that same poem by the author’s brother would now be encoded as: Required fields are marked *, To the Right Honourable, Virtuous, Heroical Reader. does this set up a Jacobean womans entry into the text, and what does it lead us to
Theme of the Poem IF: The over-arching theme of the poem If is successful virtuous living based on values pertaining to integrity, rightful behavior and self-development. We could also do a full analysis of publication versus death date to see if texts published posthumously do in fact have more non-authorial paratexts than texts published during the author’s lifetime. Add a Poem. The Hebrew word “virtuous” is chayil, which means strength, might, valor, efficiency, wealth, force, army . They specifically challenge the privileges of the
Most paratexts are written by people of distinction. This word “virtuous”, or chayil is also used to describe the strong men of Israel as they prepared for battle against their enemies (Deuteronomy 3:15), and it is used to describe David as a strong and valiant man who feared the Lord (1 Samuel 16:18). prepare ourselves to witness in our era. Calais. to whom she turned in her own adulthood as an audience for the poem. “Non-authorial paratexts” (NAPTs) became my specific interest (and the bane of my existence). going on here? Login . Read the description of the Wife of Bath in "The Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales. Full disclosure: I had never used XPath before this summer. The keyword contents of the title and the author signature were the two most important features for identifying an NAPT. Definitions and examples of 136 literary terms and devices. Louise Glück is the author of two collections of essays and more than a dozen books of poems. Virtue (The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations) is a didactic poem. Honourable: 4% This action was driven by frustration, but also observation. The story line is night paced, unpredictable. This poem also emphasizes Dorset’s descent from her mother, and her exemplary union of "Virtue and Beautie" (l. 99), a major theme of "To the Vertuous Reader" and returning in the main poem, itself. perhaps only 14 when it might have been presented to her in manuscript form. Everyone should read this book because he brings to virtuous each and every aspect and the (The video transcript does not set out the poem in lines so, if you wish to read it yourself, you can find a copy with introduction and footnotes in the downloads section below. I decided to put “Impromptu” and “Sonnet” together class they are both declarations of the poem’s type and neither was significant on its own. "Gentilesse" and "Wife of Bath's Tale"). She is like a tree planted by the waterside That yields her fruits in its time and tide That never ceases to bloom through the climes And flourishes even in the hardest times She is not just a hearer of the Word But daily searches the Scripture—her sword One text I found in this fashion was Katherine Philips’ Poems (1664), which had 7 poems written by mostly men praising Philips. — “Parable of the Hostages,” from “Poems 1962-2012” and “Meadowlands” “An Adventure,” from “Faithful and Virtuous Night” Read more from our book critics. The story line is night paced, unpredictable. writer? a body in my arms, I am a craving spirit, the way the dead stream along the walls of. Essentially these NAPTs are texts (poems, letters, and other short texts) that are published with a larger text and are written by a person who is not the author of that text. Another feature I touched upon in my searching was the titles of the paratexts. To put it another way, Dante represents his poem’s relationship to its reader as a kind of virtuous friendship. I scrolled up and down around the search result to see if there were potentially other NAPTs in that specific document. of the pilgrim. 33-56). Aemilia Lanyer's 1611 poem is far more than a retelling of The Passion. There were one or two occurrences where the paratext was not written to the author, but by the content of the poem or letter made it clear that it wasn’t written by the author herself. To the Right Honourable, Virtuous, Heroical Reader ... To begin, I worked on Poems on Various Subjects by Elizabeth Sarah Gooch. This was the less common occurrence, which is why I would look at it second even though it comes before the ending signature. earl of Dorset in 1609 (two years before the poems publication) when both were 19. I didn’t want to cast my net too wide on my first search, so I also decided to specify that I was looking for poetry. aesthetic and social distinction will assure its success. The XPath I used was: //front//div[@type="prefatory"]//div[@type="poem"] constant tending. Summary "Theory of Memory" is the fifth poem in Louise Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night.It recounts the story of a child going to a palm reader, who tells the child that they were once a "glorious ruler uniting all of a divided country." The Poetical Works of the late Mrs. Mary Robinson had an astounding 19 paratexts written by various important men, including the Duke of Leeds. Here he sings the glory of a virtuous soul which survives all the transient objects in the world. (After a second, terrible marriage to an illiterate, powerful courtier,
A quick look through the WWP encoding guidelines assuaged my fears stating that the value “para” actually stood for verse paragraphs. of their fortunes. and Annes near age-mate (1575-1615), Arabella Stuart was in prison for marrying
If there was no signature line I would check the or @type “sub” for a byline. From these missteps I decided to go with a simple query: //front//div[@type="ded"]. How
How daring is this dedication? "vertuous Ladies" to do and how does this poems advice relate to her
How might that affect your own creative purposes as a
Based on my initial assessment, I determined that the author generally writes everything in the main body without much contribution by others. I did not have the resources or the time to search for mystery authors with only initials and the main author’s bibliographic data. This is a pessimistic set of poems that mostly deal with the author’s loss and sadness. Faithful and Virtuous Night is a stellar book, fully deserving the praise and awards it has received. baffling message the narrator transmits without claiming to understand it. Notice that Lanyer names her
I'll leave you all to your own interpretations...Why must we, the system of this great place, weep, When all is not yet lost, when we are not yet sheep Why must we, the not so brilliant and brillia.... Read the poem … Sir: 4% In this world of impermanence, beautiful thing and beauty itself are subject to decay but a truly virtuous soul remains unchanged through all eternally. introductions and the first endnote you include as an opportunity to negotiate your work's
Instant PDF downloads. 10) "To the Vertuous Reader": This prose piece directly challenges all Lanyer’s other readers, including ourselves, but specifically directs its concerns toward "some women" who enviously attack other women’s work. Read this poem about a virtuous woman. Someone anyone wouldn't want to be, anyway. Add a Poem. Curating author death dates and text publication dates for nearly 100 different texts would have been far too time consuming. to the poem to come? Mainly she attempts to
What is God's plan for my life? As discussed, Alfarabi is interested in what a people can actually achieve. The last poem in the collection was written to Gooch by a Mr. Anthony Pasquin, Esq. on what grounds will she name some of them in the poems which follow? experience? Shantel: Jamaica This poem is so beautifully written, full of such value. Characters: Lanyer, herself, as well as her sequence of
Searching //front//div[@type="prefatory"] yielded 432 results. Lanyer relates how she had first thought of the title in a dream and only recently remember it. 9) "To the Ladie Anne, Countesse of Dorcet":
This is a pessimistic set of poems that mostly deal with the author’s loss and sadness. Cooke-ham") to "all virtuous Ladies and Gentlewomen of this kingdome," a
where it comes to earth? fathers family for the inheritance she claims? Notice there is no puzzling guide figure whose
Lanyer addresses the book (i.e. Lanyer imagines herself building something within her readers minds? early twenties are now almost twenty years behind her. This week's Featured Poem is 'On Virtue' by Phillis Wheatley, chosen by The Reader's Learning and Quality Coordinator, Lisa Spurgin. William Seymour without James permission (she was of royal blood and the Seymours
Within the front matter, a
(textual division) can have a several values for the @type attribute, including: “advert,” “contents,” “ded,” (dedication) “frontispiece,” “prefatory,” or “prologue.” The two values for @type that seemed the most useful were “ded” and “prefatory.” For my first search, I used “prefatory” because it is the broader category that would give me more results so that I could go on to refine my search. charges? Even though the case that sent me to this research was in the back matter I thought it prudent to start with what was in front of me. I've only read one of your poems, and l loved it. Below is the poem entitled {A Virtuous Woman} which was written by poet {Victor Chukwuka}Please feel free to comment on this poem. This
"A Virtuous Woman" A woman wholly made, In her no friendly colours ever fade, Margarets daughter, the only surviving child of the Duke of Cumberland, married the
Plot Summary: We might say the dedicatory poems enact a series
Of the 77 I found with the [@type="ded"] search, 52 were found through scrolling—or, 67% were not a direct result of the XPath query. All this to say that my hypothesis was proven false. I am nothing without. We could easily identify how many NAPTs there are per text or the genre that has the most NAPTs. I will be reading more that you wrote. This is her test of
“Impromptu/Sonnet”: 4%. That truth helps explain why Ben Jonson's poem about leaving the world is in the voice of a "gentlewoman" who is not simply "virtuous" but "noble." See also her use of the socially
By portraying the rich man only through his possessions, the reader sees him as a very shallow, or even as a very unhappy person. The first was simple and logical, but would be more difficult to implement. It's called The Virtuous woman. To trim this list, down I looked at prefatory material that contained elements inside of s. her fear of the male reading public at several points, as well as her dread of and scorn
after his death (1573) married Sir John Wingfield in 1581. Duke: 4% The gender composition of paratext authorship is mostly male. Untitled: 6% We came to the conclusion that this was not going to be decided soon, but created several potential methods of encoding. What interested me most about this text was at the very end and not even written by … one, into a supportive interpretive audience for her work. If there were any doubts about authorship (especially for texts written by various or unknown authors) I would not catalog it. What is the central idea of the poem Virtue? Since I had experience with XML and the TEI, but not with WWP encoding, I wanted to learn how to encode a short text that was vastly different from what I had transcribed and encoded before. for the envious attacks by other women (see Marie?). 1. What is the
What interested me most about this text was at the very end and not even written by … figures or gods. A Member Of The STANDS4 Network. I discussed this topic with Sarah Connell and Ashley Clark as well as some encoders working on the project. Since “ded” was the other front matter @type value that seemed worthwhile, I simply exchanged “poem” for “ded” and searched: //front//div[@type="prefatory"]//div[@type="ded"]. I've only read one of your poems, and l loved it. Using XPath, I tried and erred my way through many possibilities of where and what these non-authorial paratexts could be. This project is still ongoing. The reader builds a nest for the poem in her mind; she repeats the poem to herself over and over, letting it stick. "Virtue and Beautie" (l. 99), a major theme of "To the Vertuous
What does she advise the
The second method followed the logic of the first, but was more practical. Why can't a publishing poet just "shoot an arrow in the air" and not care about