Alfarabi’s virtuous city neither distorts nor improves Plato’s republic, but completely departs from it. 3. This action was driven by frustration, but also observation. My dad would joke “para what? Virtuous May 2019 My Friend the Moon. charges? Still determined that “para” stood for paratext I tried deleting the type of ‘prefatory’ from my search. strategy which appears to ignore entirely the much more numerous male reading public. Lanyer relates how she had first thought of the title in a dream and only recently remember it. Login . Read this poem about a virtuous woman. This gave me more fruitful results. Every beautiful object is … We could easily identify how many NAPTs there are per text or the genre that has the most NAPTs. Curating author death dates and text publication dates for nearly 100 different texts would have been far too time consuming. How does the poem draw upon her youthful relationship with Lady Susan to relate her "vertuous" fame. I didn’t want to cast my net too wide on my first search, so I also decided to specify that I was looking for poetry. As the simple “ded” search was very successful, I thought another simple search would be a good course of action. I had not yet realized that these were two values that were essentially describing the same level of textual divisions and that dedications would not necessarily be nested within more general prefatory textual divisions. Sir: 4% My lengthy process of trial and error was at times frustrating, but it did make me acutely aware what was and what wasn’t a non-authorial paratext. Mainly she attempts to Notice that Lanyer names her I scrolled up and down around the search result to see if there were potentially other NAPTs in that specific document. baffling message the narrator transmits without claiming to understand it. As of writing this post, I have found over 120 unique non-authorial paratexts from 30 different larger texts. Two…he has a physical encounter with a fanstalker and permanently changes Freddies outlook on sex and life. If there was a signature, I would check to make sure that the author attributed was not the author herself. I took to the digital stacks of already published and in-progress texts in Women Writers Online to see what I could find. As a general rule NAPTs are written to or about the author of the main text praising her abilities, virtuousness, or life. Using XPath, I tried and erred my way through many possibilities of where and what these non-authorial paratexts could be. The authorship genders broke down as: 5% female, 36% male, and 59% gender unknown, thus showing my hypothesis was plausible. I started off looking to see if Pasquin’s poem was not in fact a singular phenomenon. I am nothing without. The considerable number of gender unknown authors comes from the fact that authors would sign their paratext with only their initials or a gender non-specific abbreviation. Full disclosure: I had never used XPath before this summer. Since “ded” was the other front matter @type value that seemed worthwhile, I simply exchanged “poem” for “ded” and searched: //front//div[@type="prefatory"]//div[@type="ded"]. This method would also provide more specificity for paratexts where the NAPT author already has an entry in the personography: However, please remember, Sublimepoems is a place of encouragement and growth. earl of Dorset in 1609 (two years before the poem’s publication) when both were 19. Summary "Theory of Memory" is the fifth poem in Louise Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night.It recounts the story of a child going to a palm reader, who tells the child that they were once a "glorious ruler uniting all of a divided country." With more connections to the WWP’s bibliographic information we could see if any of the NAPT authors are other female authors in the database. This poem also emphasizes Dorset’s descent from her mother, and her exemplary union of "Virtue and Beautie" (l. 99), a major theme of "To the Vertuous Reader" and returning in the main poem, itself. See also her use of the socially — “Parable of the Hostages,” from “Poems 1962-2012” and “Meadowlands” “An Adventure,” from “Faithful and Virtuous Night” Read more from our book critics. Lanyer imagines herself building something within her readers’ minds? This was the less common occurrence, which is why I would look at it second even though it comes before the ending signature. ... Help us build the largest poetry community and poems collection on the web! its concerns toward "some women" who enviously attack other women’s work. The poem lures the reader into thinking that the poor man is a virtuous man who doesn't care about earthly pleasures, such as wealth, cars or houses. She also summarizes the importance of women in the life of I will be reading more that you wrote. writer? The reader builds a nest for the poem in her mind; she repeats the poem to herself over and over, letting it stick. The poem is a farewell to the beloved estate Cookham and its lady, the Countess of Cumberland; it both celebrates the invigorating effects the Countess has on the estate and mourns how her departure causes it to wither. prepare ourselves to witness in our era. The reader builds a nest for the poem in her mind; she repeats the poem to herself over and over, letting it stick. So it wouldn’t be very fruitful to look there. two.) to whom she turned in her own adulthood as an audience for the poem. Less than 5 occurrences, various: 22% Most of the non-authorial paratexts I found were poems or letters written to or about the author. hold hte fittest place, / Where virtue should be setled & protected" (2-4). At times, this meant looking to the publication information or the personographic data to make sure the initials were not hers. Esquire: 55% While I knew that there would be many non-authorial paratexts hidden under a lot of other odd prefatory material, this was such a large grouping that it would take a single person with a time constraint far too long to parse through. had ambitions). How Faithful and Virtuous Night is a stellar book, fully deserving the praise and awards it has received. dreamer discusses the poem’s chief topic, often unsuccessfully striving to understand There were some rare cases where the authorial attribution was baked into the title, but as a general rule NAPTs in the WWP textbase have signatures as authorial attributions, so looking for dedications that contained elements gave me another way to refine my results. self "author" in the title. The first thing I noticed was the signature or byline. As I walk on this land full of sin, I question my very existence. Based on my initial assessment, I determined that the author generally writes everything in the main body without much contribution by others. https://lifeofaemilia.blogspot.com/2010/05/to-virtuous-reader.html The last poem in the collection was written to Gooch by a Mr. Anthony Pasquin, Esq. Within the front matter, a

(textual division) can have a several values for the @type attribute, including: “advert,” “contents,” “ded,” (dedication) “frontispiece,” “prefatory,” or “prologue.” The two values for @type that seemed the most useful were “ded” and “prefatory.” For my first search, I used “prefatory” because it is the broader category that would give me more results so that I could go on to refine my search. The story line is night paced, unpredictable. Spenser also used (As You Like It II.vii and Amoretti Sonnett #54).