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Sonnet 11. ‘Sonnet 11’ is part of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, a sonnet sequence in Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. It describes the feelings and expressions of a girl after her love has been unfaithful to her. Read Poem.
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Wroth's title The Countess of Montgomery's Urania honours her relative and friend Susan de Vere and echoes Sidney's noble formulation the Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
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Nov 25, 2014 · Over the succeeding decades, Wroth scholars have produced a significant body of historical and literary analysis devoted to this pioneering female author, who crafted the first known prose romance, sonnet sequence, and play written by a woman in English; namely, The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, and Love’s Victory.
Lady Mary Wroth was a Renaissance poet and the first English female writer to maintain a reputation after her death. Her works include The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. The latter is the second-known sonnet sequence by an English woman.
The Countesse of Montgomery’s Urania: “Love peruse me, seeke, and finde”. By Lady Mary Wroth. Love peruse me, seeke, and finde. How each corner of my minde. Is a twine. Woven to shine. Not a Webb ill made, foule fram’d, Bastard not by Father nam’d, Such in me.
This article examines the work of Mary Wroth. The first of two parts of Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania appeared in the bookshops of London in 1621; the second part remained unpublished until 1999. It was the first extant romance written by an Englishwoman and represents a landmark in the history of English prose.
This essay foregrounds the ways in which amatory complaint was used for personal, rhetorical and political gain in the English Renaissance, focusing on the poems embedded in Lady Mary Wroth’s prose romance The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania.
