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
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