Upon first reading of John Donne's 'The Sunne Rising' (Leonard 1998:463), it is obvious the poem is a love poem and it appears that the concerns of the poet are to show the speaker's love for his mistress. Showing this them of love was obviously one of the poets concerns but t...

Sarah Fyge at the young age of fourteen wrote one of her most important works in response to Robert Gould's satire against women: Love Given O'er, or a Satyr against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, &c of Woman. After reading the unjust and harsh words of Gould, young Sarah felt compelled ...