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Yet there is hope mary wroth analysis6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() In the first, fifty-five-poem section, Pamphilia determines her true feelings about her unfaithful lover, toward whom she is ambivalent throughout this section, though she affirms her choice to love Amphilanthus by its end. The sonnet sequence is organized in four sections. Dramatic differences between versions consist of changes to punctuation in the 1621 version from that which appears in the manuscript these changes were probably completed by Urania's printer Augustine Matthews. ![]() Five sonnets and one song in the Folger manuscript were not printed in the 1621 volume, while the fourth sonnet in the published sequence does not appear in the manuscript. The holograph manuscript is the most comprehensive collection of the sequence. Three sonnets appear in the manuscript continuation of Urania. Nineteen sonnets are spread throughout the prose of the 1621 Urania, and eighty-three are printed in sequence at the back of the same volume. Parts of the sequence appear in four versions: in the 1621 The Countess of Montgomeries Urania, the manuscript continuation of Urania, and Wroth's holograph manuscript held at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Wroth began writing sonnets for the sequence as early as 1613, when the poet Josuah Sylvester referred to her poetry in his Lachrimae Lachrimarum.
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