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| | Attribution of Dido-Aeneas Poems to Isabella Whitney |
 | | This sharpness is there in Whitney's version of the Aeneas and Dido story, which she slants against the hero, registering his 'untrueth' to 'poore DIDO'. |
 | | The second poem in the collection, 'The admonition by the Auctor, to all yong Gentilwomen', makes reference to the Ovidian stories of Phyllis and Demophoon, Hero and Leander, and Paris and Oenone (65-88), all of which feature in the Heroides (2, 18-19, and 5 respectively). |
 | | George Turbervile, trans., Heroycall Epistles (London: Henry Denham, 1567) includes Sabinus's replies to the Heroides of Penelope, Phyllis, and Oenone, and so may have prompted Whitney towards the idea of reply. |
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