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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?

Why do Ariel and the other sylphs abandon Belinda after her hair has been cut?

What purpose do the letters from Captain Gulliver to his cousin and from the publisher to the reader serve?