Sin boldly and rely on God’s mercy
-Martin Luther
11: Celebrating Female Romantic Friendships in the 17th Century and Today
“To rocks and rivers, not to thee, complain” Following in Katherine Philips Footprints I had been reading and researching Welsh poet Katherine Philips at the Library of Congress, the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the National Library of Wales and the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. I had finally found her adult home at Cardigan…
11: “To rocks and rivers, not to thee, complain” Following in Katherine Philips Footprints
I had been reading and researching Welsh poet Katherine Philips at the Library of Congress, the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the National Library of Wales and the University of Wales. I had finally found her adult home at Cardigan Priory in Pembroke, Wales where Philips lived with her husband from the age of 15.…
10: Made Ill by Poetry
I was an English major at Michigan State University in 1993 and I had been reading and researching 17th century Welsh poet Katherine Philips at the Library of Congress, the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the National Library of Wales and the University of Wales. Her genre was female romantic friendship poetry and I was…
9: Poetry, Mothers, and Priories
(The building on the left is the original monastery and the building on the right is the add-on hospital.) So, this non-Catholic girl goes to the Anglican nation of Great Britain to study a 17th century poet and got tripped up on the lingering Catholic vocabulary. I had been seeking poet Katherine Philips at the…
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