December 14, 2011
awritersruminations: A Centuries-Old Mystery Hidden in West Virginia University’s Rare Book Room A Latin poem written by Elizabeth Dacre is found at the back of a 1561 edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works. “I think it’s a particularly important find…On the one hand it’s not brain surgery. It’s not a major discovery like DNA or something. But I think I’m right in saying that we don’t have any other nonreligious Latin poetry written by a woman possibly at all—and certainly in this period. So it’s the only love poem written in Latin by a woman ever until maybe the 18th century. That’s kind of astonishing really.”

awritersruminations:

A Centuries-Old Mystery Hidden in West Virginia University’s Rare Book Room

A Latin poem written by Elizabeth Dacre is found at the back of a 1561 edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works.

“I think it’s a particularly important find…On the one hand it’s not brain surgery. It’s not a major discovery like DNA or something. But I think I’m right in saying that we don’t have any other nonreligious Latin poetry written by a woman possibly at all—and certainly in this period. So it’s the only love poem written in Latin by a woman ever until maybe the 18th century. That’s kind of astonishing really.”

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