Rhetorically analysing their verse within a gender-inclusive context, Women Writing of Divinest Things broadens our understanding of Renaissance women's poetry in literary history. Focusing on the work of Mary Sidney Herbert, Lady Mary Wroth and Aemilia Lanyer, Lyn Bennett shows how rhetoric enabled these poets to articulate what the sixteenth century rhetorician Henry Peacham called 'divine and human things'. Bennett closely analyses the poets' writings to reveal dynamic rhetorical structures and effects at work in their verse, and provides a detailed account of early modern rhetorical theory and its role within women's education. Bennett also compares the poets' work with that of their contemporaries, especially Wyatt, Donne and Herbert, to demonstrate that women authors were sophisticated thinkers as rhetorically and poetically accomplished as their male counterparts.