Silvia Schilling 
Katherine Philips’ “Friendship in Embleme, or the Seal. To my dearest Lucasia” and John Donne’s “A Valediction forbidding mourning” [PDF ebook] 
A Comparison of Renaissance Poetry

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject English — Literature, Works, University College Dublin, course: Hauptseminar: Writing and Performance in the Age of Shakespeare — Renaissance Literature, language: English, abstract: This essay analyzes form and content of Katherine Philips’ “Friendship in Embleme, or the Seal. To my dearest Lucasia” and John Donne’s “A Valediction forbidding mourning”. It compares the two poems regarding their themes, the depiction of the respective relationship and the use of images such as the compass.