Elizabeth Melville and the religious sonnet sequence in Scotland and England

The lyrics in manuscript that Jamie Reid-Baxter has attributed to Elizabeth Melville, the Scottish religious poet and author ofAne Godlie Dreame(1603), include three sequences of religious sonnets, a poetic genre around which there clusters a language of ‘firsts’ in literary-critical discussion of t...

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Published inEarly modern women and the poem pp. 42 - 59
Main Author Ross, Sarah C. E
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Manchester Manchester University Press 16.05.2016
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Arts
Bible
Calvinism
Christianity
Complementary therapies
Health sciences
Literary genres
Literature
Love poetry
Lyric poetry
Medical treatment
Meditation
Mind body approaches
Old Testament
Poetic forms
Poetry
Practical theology
Protestantism
Psalms
Relaxation techniques
Religion
Religious poetry
Sacred texts
Song lyrics
Sonnets
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Summary:The lyrics in manuscript that Jamie Reid-Baxter has attributed to Elizabeth Melville, the Scottish religious poet and author ofAne Godlie Dreame(1603), include three sequences of religious sonnets, a poetic genre around which there clusters a language of ‘firsts’ in literary-critical discussion of the period. Anne Lock’sA Meditation of a Penitent Sinner(1560), a sequence of religious sonnets that paraphrase and expand on Psalm 51, has received extensive critical attention in recent years as ‘the first sonnet sequence in English’: to that distinction can be added (and frequently is) those of being a religious sonnet sequence, and of
DOI:10.7765/9781526110923.00008