If only we could find the late work of Aemilia Lanyer, 1569-1645.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Gillian Austen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind1103%26L%3DSIDNEY-SPENSER%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D315406%26B%3D--0050450176e31eb503049ec192b8%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Still harping on London, I&#39;m afraid, but Ben Jonson kept going into his sixties with The New Inn (1629), The Magnetic Lady (1631), and A Tale of a Tub (1633) - all of which Dryden referred to as his &quot;dotages&quot;, though I&#39;m afraid I don&#39;t remember where I saw that.<br>

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Thomas Churchyard may have lasted until his eighties (?1520-1604) but it&#39;s a moot point how productive his later years were!<br>
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Gillian Austen<br>
Visiting Fellow, Dept of English<br>
University of Bristol<br>
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