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"In this necessary and long needed anthology, Marion Wynne-Davies selects thirteen women writers to balance out the canonical male viewpoint that blankets most studies of the Renaissance. By collecting and reintroducing these women poets, a female perspective is returned, allowing a more complete assessment to be made."--BOOK JACKET. "The range of Renaissance women poets is remarkably broad. Their meditations on the danger and sufferings of motherhood and their descriptions of the vagaries of love, while couched in the formal style of Renaissance poetry, often appear startlingly close to modern experience. They did not confine themselves to topics considered appropriate for women."--BOOK JACKET.