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Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth (1587 - 1653)
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About Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Lady Mary Wroth (1587 - 1653)
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Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is the first sonnet sequence written by an Englishwoman. Published in 1621, the poems invert the usual format of sonnet sequences by making the speaker a woman (Pamphilia,…
whose name means "all-loving") and the beloved a man (Amphilanthus, whose name means "lover of two."). It is possible that Wroth based the story on her own fraught relationship with her cousin, William Herbert. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett.)