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Article: "In sort as she it sung": Spenser's "Doleful Lay" and the Construction of Female Authorship.(Edmund Spenser, 'The Doleful Lay of Clorinda')(Critical Essay)
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- Criticism
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- September 22, 2000
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"THE "DOLEFUL LAY OF CLORINDA" was printed in 1595 as one of the elegies Sir Philip Sidney appended Colin Clouts Come Home Againe.(1) The volume consists of Spenser's poem "Astrophel," "The Doleful Lay of Clorinda"--attributed to a persona identified as Sidney's "sister that Clorinda hight"--but narrated by the male speaker of "Astrophel," and elegies written by Lodowick Bryskett, Sir Walter Raleigh, Matthew Royden, and either Sir Fulke Greville or Edward Dyer. None of these poets is clearly identified within the text itself. Of these elegies only Bryskett's is introduced to the reader in a comparable way to Clorinda's: using a pastoral persona (Thestylis, also a speaker ...
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