Introduction: She thinks not on the state? 1. 'The right vse of Poesie': Elizabeth Melville's religious verse and Scottish Presbyterian politics 2. 'Thou art the nursing father of all pietye': sociality, religion, and politics in Anne Southwell's verse 3. 'When that shee heard the drums and cannon play': Jane Cavendish and occasional verse 4. 'This kingdoms loss': Hester Pulter's elegies and emblems 5. 'I see our nere, to be reentered paradice': Lucy Hutchinson's 'Elegies' and Order and Disorder Conclusions
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