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Article: Isabella Whitney: c. mid-sixteenth century.(ENTHUSIASMS)
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- Poetry
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- March 1, 2006
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I Whole in body, and in minde,
but very weake in Purse:
Doo make, and write my Testament
for feare it wyll be worse.
So begins "The maner of her Wyll, & what she left to London: and to all those in it: at her departing," a poem in 364 lines. It will scarcely do to call a poet unknown when she can claim five pages of her own in the Norton Anthology of Poetry, but Isabella Whitney was new to many of my best-read friends when I spoke about her at a conference of writers last year. To my mind, her name should be on the tongue of every freshman English major in the land and her verses engraved in the heart of every poet. So perhaps there is room for ...
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