Interestingly, Aemilia Lanyer's assumption at the beginning of "Salve
Deus Rex Judaeorum" is that dedications should be to the living --
hence her dedication to the Countess of Cumberland instead of QE I (SD
1-12). But in making the point, she includes what amounts to a
posthumous dedication to the Queen.
Susanne
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:15:51 -0400
William Oram <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a writer dedicating a work or works to a dead
>person
> before Greville's dedication of his works to Sir Philip Sidney?
> It's my
> sense that dedications in the sixteenth century were normally
>concerned
> to connect the writer with the living, rather than with honoring the
> dead. Am I missing a tradition upon which Greville was drawing, or
>is
> he really doing something new?
> Bill Oram
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