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Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Latin: Hail, God, King of the Jews) is a volume of poems by English poet Emilia Lanyer published in 1611. The volume is notable both for being the first one published by a woman in English, and for containing the first known 'country house poem', 'The Description of Cooke-ham'.

Poems

 * To the Queenes Most Excellent Majestie
 * To the Lady Elizabeths Grace
 * To All Vertuous Ladies in Generall
 * To the Ladie Arabella
 * To the Ladie Susan
 * The Authors Dream to the Lady Marie
 * To the Ladie Lucie
 * To the Ladie Margaret
 * To the Ladie Katherine
 * To the Ladie Anne
 * To the Vertuous Reader (prose)
 * Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
 * The Description of Cooke-ham
 * To the Doubtfull Reader (prose)

Synopsis
One synopsis for the dedicatory poems; one for SDRJ; one for Cookeham

Criticism
The volume is widely seen as proto-feminist, both in the decision to contain so many dedicatory poems to women (nine to specific patrons - the group has been compared to the nine Muses and nine Worthies - and for the poem Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, which attempts a revisionist reading of women's roles in the Bible, including a section called Eves Apologie which reversed the traditional view that Eve was to blame for the Fall.