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Mary Stuart

Contributor: Professor Rosalind Smith

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) is the author of devotional and secular lyrics in the forms of the couplet, quatrain, sonnet and meditation. She circulated her own work in manuscript and print, as well as had multiple texts attributed to her and circulated under her name during her lifetime and beyond.

  • Biography
  • Textual History

Poems Written By Mary Stuart

  • Quatrain in Anne of Lorraine's Book of Hours
  • Quatrains in Mary Stuart's Book of Hours
  • Marginalia
  • Meditation on the Inconstancy and Vanity of the World, Sonnet "L'ire de Dieu" and Sonnet to the Bishop of Ross
  • Sonnets and Verse to Ronsard
  • Sonnet written at Fotheringay Castle

Poems Of Uncertain Attribution

  • Ode on the Death of Francis II
  • Adamas Loquitur, The Diamond Speaks
  • Casket Sonnets
  • Sonnet to Elizabeth I, in Italian and French
  • Quatrains held at the Public Record Office

Index:

  • Biography
  • Textual History
  • Quatrain in Anne of Lorraine’s Book of Hours
  • Quatrains in Mary Stuart’s Book of Hours
  • Marginalia
  • Meditation on the Inconstancy and Vanity of the World, Sonnet “L’ire de Dieu” and Poem “A L’Evesque de Rosse”
  • Sonnets and Verse to Ronsard
  • Sonnet written at Fotheringay Castle
  • Ode on the Death of Francis II
  • Adamas Loquitur, The Diamond Speaks
  • Casket Sonnets
  • Sonnet to Elizabeth I, in Italian and French
  • Quatrains held at the Public Record Office

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