Hester Pulter (c. 1596—1678). A Woman Poet and the New Astronomy
The writings of Hester Pulter were discovered only very recently in the Brotherton Library, Leeds. One of the striking features of her poetry, is her use of imagery drawn from early modern science and astronomy. Furthermore, the cosmology she imagines in her poems is, in early terms of its time, ver...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2008-10-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/729 |