Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700

Brian Elliott
“To Love Have Prov’d a Foe”: Virginity, Virtue, and Love’s Dangers in Anne Killigrew’s Pastoral Dialogues
Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 - Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 27-41

University of Tennessee

Project MUSE - Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 - "To Love Have Prov'd a Foe": Virginity, Virtue, and Love's Dangers in Anne Killigrew's Pastoral Dialogues Project MUSE Journals Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2009 "To Love Have Prov'd a Foe": Virginity, Virtue, and Love's Dangers in Anne Killigrew's Pastoral Dialogues Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2009 E-ISSN: 1941-952X Print ISSN: 0162-9905 DOI: 10.1353/rst.0.0039 "To Love Have Prov'd a Foe": Virginity, Virtue, and Love's Dangers in Anne Killigrew's Pastoral Dialogues Brian ElliottOhio University Only a small volume of Anne Killigrew's poems, published posthumously in 1686, have survived. Although some of the poems commonly receiving critical treatment from this volume are considered pastorals -- such as "The Discontent" and "The Miseries of Man," as well as the three "Eudora" poems that end the collection (and that Killigrew may not have written1)--Killigrew's other pastoral works have not received sufficient attention.2 Drawing on Harriette Andreadis's observation that several "poems address pastoral topics, many of them from a unique and unusually dark perspective" (113), and Richard Morton's claim that the "modern reader may gain from her book of verse a moving insight into the thoughts and preoccupations of a young lady at court in the declining years of...