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Article: Dunnigan, Sarah M. Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2004
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan 232 pp., $62.00, ISBN 0-333-91875-4 Publication Date: Febuary 2003
Although there have been countless studies of Elizabethan love poetry, Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI is the first book on Scottish Renaissance love poetry and (remarkably) only the third book devoted to Scottish Renaissance literature. The most fascinating chapter in Sarah Dunnigan's book examines the difficulty of knowing whether the "Marian" casket sonnets were actually written by Mary or by an antifeminist detractor to embarrass the Queen with poems that offered a radically innovative expression of female desire even as they ...