ISO AFABulous Renaissance Poets
Jun. 2nd, 2022 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
radiantfractureAs I was galloping the class through the sonnet form today, a student asked an excellent question about whether Renaissance women poets used the sonnet form differently than men. (In a first-year lit survey course!) -- which I did not know nearly enough about to answer at all properly. (Despite having just confidently made one of those breezy teacherly proclamations that sound like you have the receipts to back it up.) So I said I would find out.
So for Tuesday, when we do variations on / responses to the sonnet, I'd love to have some good examples.
I will do much fevered research of my own, but if in your travels you happen to have discovered favorite renaissance poets who were assigned female at birth (or weren't but identified femmewise) and you had any thoughts thereupon, I would definitely like to hear about them. Full credit via username or RL name given.
Sonnets preferred but I can make other things work.
As it stands, my main knowledge is that the Queen wrote sonnets. [ETA Which seems to be not so much knowledge as An Error.]
{rf}
So for Tuesday, when we do variations on / responses to the sonnet, I'd love to have some good examples.
I will do much fevered research of my own, but if in your travels you happen to have discovered favorite renaissance poets who were assigned female at birth (or weren't but identified femmewise) and you had any thoughts thereupon, I would definitely like to hear about them. Full credit via username or RL name given.
Sonnets preferred but I can make other things work.
As it stands, my main knowledge is that the Queen wrote sonnets. [ETA Which seems to be not so much knowledge as An Error.]
{rf}
