What is Emilia Lanier?
[[File:Nicholas Hilliard 010.jpg|thumb|Emilia Lanier]] '''Emilia Lanier''' (1569-1645) was an [[English people|English]] [[poet]], the author of only one book of poems named (in Latin) ''Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum''.<ref name=PH /> == Biography == Emilia Lanier was the first woman in [[England]] who published a sepatate book of poems.<ref name=PH>[http://www.poemhunter.com/aemilia-lanyer/biography/ Aemilia Lanier at PoemHunter]</ref> Her name and surname were written in many ways, Emilia, Aemilia, Amelia, Lanier or Lanyer. She was born in the beginning of 1569. She was baptised on 27 January 1569.<ref name=PF>[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/aemilia-lanyer Aemilia Lanier at Poetry Foundation]</ref> She was partly of Italian origin. Her father was Baptist Bassano. He was a musician. He came from [[Venice]].<ref name=PF /> Her mother was Margaret Johnson.<ref name=PF /> For some years she was in informal relation with Henry Carey. He was a cousin and chamberlain of the queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth the Great]]. She got pregnant. She married her cousin Alphonso Lanyer, who was a musician like her father.<ref name=PF /> In 1593 she gave birth to her son Henry who was named after his father, Henry Carey.<ref name=PF /> In 1598 she gave birth to a daughter, Odillya, who lived for only ten months.<ref name=PF /> The poet lived with her son's family. In 1623 he married Joyce Mansfield. Emilia Lanier had two grandchildren, Mary (born 1627) and Henry (born 1630).<ref name=PF /> == Works == Emilia Lanier published her collection of poems in 1611. It contains pieces of religious poetry. They differ from each other in the field of poetic form. Emilia Lanier used many stanzas,<ref name=KS>[http://www.thisroughmagic.org/stapleton%20article.html Kristiane Stapleton, Teaching Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum: Aemilia Lanyer and Early Modern Authorship]</ref> build of six lines (rhymed ababcc), seven lines (ababacc or ababbcc that is [[rhyme royal]]) or eight lines (abababcc that is [[ottava rima]