Eng 22 ucsb hiltner - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

The Description of Cookeham - ️️-Written by Aemilia Lanyer for Lanyer's patron Margaret Clifford -Country-house poem literal (rather than allegorical) pastoral -Describes a community of women (homosocial group) -Poem celebrating invigorating effects the Countess has on the estate and mourns how her departure causes it to wither. -echoes Virgil's Eclogue 1, as the exiled speaker develops and attempts to communicate an environmental consciousness -(women are the exiled group) Co...