The Life of Aemelia Lanyer

Lanyer’s Voice For Sexual Equality in “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women” Women of the Renaissance lived the life of the underlying sex due to the period’s societal belief that men were of the dominant sex. For a woman to speak out against society norms and constraints was frowned upon and unheard of. Though Aemelia Lanyer lived in a time where women’s voices were absent and ignored, she was the first Englishwoman to publish a volume of original poems in the Renaissance period. Despite her society’s

issue of how gender roles are different among male and female poets. In addition, to narrow the research only four Elizabethan poets, who were specialised in religious poetry. Poets such as John Donne, George Herbert, Mary Sidney Herbert and Aemelia Lanyer. The reason for choosing these poets is because their work sometimes portrays women in a negative and positive in their religious poetry. This assignment tries to achieve to see the various voices for women in