Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries (Reprise) - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 39c
October 19, 2019
Poetry about Love Between Women from the 16th and 17th Centuries (Reprise)
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 39c with Heather Rose Jones
This is a reprise of LHMPodcast episode 25d which originally aired on 2018/08/26.
This episode takes a poetic tour through expressions of, and reactions to, love between women in 16th and 17th century Europe.
In this episode we talk about:
- Poems about the pangs of love
- “To Mrs M Awbrye” by Katherine Philips
- “A Song” by Aphra Behn
- “Love and Friendship: A Pastoral” by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
- “On the Death of my Dear Friend and Play-fellow” by Jane Barker
- Men jealous of women’s love for each other
- “Elegy for a Lady Enamoured of Another Lady” by Pontus de Tyard
- “On the Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies” by Edmund Waller
- “Two Beauties, Tender Lovers” by Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin
- Men appropriating lesbian imagery
- “Sappho to Philaenis” by John Donne
- “To Mr. J.D. (T.W.)” by Thomas Woodward
- Poems of satire and vituperation
- “Epigram on Cecilia Bulstrode” by Ben Johnson
- “Tribades or Lesbia” by François de Maynard
- “Women’s Complaint to Venus” and “Venus’s Reply” by anonymous
- The triumph of love
- Maitland Quarto MS Poem 49
- ”My Divine Lysi” by Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz
- “On a Lady Named Beloved” by Anne de Rohan-Chabot
- A transcript of this podcast is available here and contains links to the source material.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
- Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
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Links to Heather Online
- Website: http://alpennia.com
- Email: Heather Rose Jones
- Twitter: @heatherosejones
- Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)
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