In a volume of one hundred and fourteen pages, only fifty eight of those are taken up by the actual text of “Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.” The book opens with a rather nondescript title page, listing a rough outline of what is found in the text of the poem, likely to give prospective readers an idea of what they will find inside. Of endlesse joy and true Eternitie, That glorious place that cannot be exprest. See below. Turning to the text reveals the sheer number of pages occupied by the dedications in comparison with Lanyer’s title poem, “Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum” and her country house poem. Line 89. [2] [1] The poem addresses the Passion of Christ, contrasting the virtuous women with the evil men, and includes a section defending Eve and all women. To provide this safe space for women to gather to commune, Lanyer weaves together her own interpretations of Christ’s Passion and the Fall to prove why female community must be encouraged and protected. Eves Apologie: A section of Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Her religious poem "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" repeatedly projects a female subject for a female reader and casts the Passion in terms of gender conflict. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum is a clear The paper shows how Lanyer tries to bring about women's equality through the spread of her re-evaluation of the Genesis story and the re-evaluation of the social standing of women. By any wight clad in mortalitie, In her almightie love so highly blest, And crown’d with everlasting Sovraigntie; Where Saints and Angells do attend her Throne, And she gives glorie vnto God alone. Passeover: The most important festival of the Jewish year. Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Despite the positive spin that Lanyer places on some of these women, the danger is apparent through her continual references to their devastation. Excerpted from Salve Deus Rex Judæorum by Amelia Lanyer, 1611 But surely Adam can not be excused, Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What Weakness offered, Strength might have refused, Being Lord of all, the greater was his shame: 780 Although the … The year 1611 saw the publication, in London, of the first volume of poetry in English written by a woman:Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. community to live on is one of the functions that the text of Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum serves. Salve Deus the collection opens with what seems like an excessive number of dedications, all directed towards her hoped-for patronesses. Line 85. The paper analyses Aemelia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum to show that her proto-feminist writing aimed at rich and powerful women is to gain support for women's freer access to knowledge. Lanyer lived from 1569-1645. Paschal Lambe: Originally the lamb eaten on the Jewish Passover. Sith Cynthia is ascended to that rest. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as well as the first country house poem published in England. her title poem “Salve Deus Rex Judæorum,” where she amplifies the danger that this community is in through specific references towards fallen or ruined women in the Passion narrative. Lanyer A volume of religious poems published in 1611, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, was written by a gentlewoman who identified herself on her title page as “Mistris Aemilia Lanyer… Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. “Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum” was first published in 1611 in Aemilia Lanyer’s volume of poetry by the same title, though the year it was written is unknown.