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What does Sir Isaac Newton’s letter about his theory of light and colors demonstrate?

What unorthodox opinion does Lanyer posit in her dedicatory poem to the Countess of Dorset?

In “To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty,” what does Lanyer suggest she is presenting to the Queen that has rarely been seen?

To what does Locke compare the operation of human understanding?

Which woman’s response to the men’s poems did you most enjoy, and why?

What makes the weeping daughters of Jerusalem “thrice happy”? 

What generalization of men does Fantomina (the story) emphasize?

What is the verse form of “The Vanity of Human Wishes”?

How is the Countess of Cumberland related to Aemilia Lanyer?

What does the speaker tell us happened to Belinda’s lock of hair at the end of the poem?