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Article: Women Writing of Divinest Things: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Pembroke, Wroth and Lanyer.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2007
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Women Writing of Divinest Things: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Pembroke, Wroth and Lanyer. By Lyn Bennett. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press. 2004. x + 331 pp. $60. ISBN 978-0-8207-0359-6.
The introduction to Germaine Greer's anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse portrays the 'women [...] who tried to storm the highest bastion, the citadel of "sacred poetry" [as] [...] all guerrilleras, untrained, ill-equipped, isolated and vulnerable' (Kissing the Rod, ed. by Germaine Greer and others (London: Virago), p. 1). In Women Writing of Divinest Things, Lyn Bennett seeks to refute this sweeping statement by asserting that, whatever the situation of their less ...