tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-06:307003 Kestrell Kestrell 2018-12-12T17:21:29Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-06:307003:281617 2018-12-12T17:21:29Z 2018-12-12T17:21:29Z public 0 by Katherine Philips, who was a sort of lesbian bluestocking (lesbian bluestocking erotica--the world needs more of that subgenre)<br /><br />Friendship's Mystery: To My Dearest Lucasia<br /><a href="https://enl3501g1.wordpress.com/friendships-mystery-to-my-dearest-lucasia-annotated/">https://enl3501g1.wordpress.com/friendships-mystery-to-my-dearest-lucasia-annotated/</a><br /><br />I note that , as in the case of<br />Piers Gaveston by Michael Drayton<br /><a href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/pwh/drayton1.asp">https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/pwh/drayton1.asp</a><br /><br />those Elizabethans did seem fond of references to playing prince and subject, with lots of references to bondage thrown in. <br />But this poem also reminds me of <br />John Donne's "Air and Angels"<br /><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44091/air-and-angels-56d2230aa341c">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44091/air-and-angels-56d2230aa341c</a><br /><br />fnot only in its reference to angels, but in that Philips seems to intentionally countering Donne's statement that men's love is always of a higher plane that that of *lip curl* women.<br />See, Johnny: you aren't the only one who can come up with sexy angel poetry, so there!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kestrell&ditemid=281617" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments