The Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan SonneteerThis book gives the reader a new perspective on the significance of Sir Philip Sidney to the English Renaissance by focusing on his conflicted exemplarity as it is fashioned by his contemporaries and poetic successors. It explores how Sidney's fellow poets constructed and contested his legendary image. These poets initially drew on his example to define and authorize themselves, but their sonnets and other writings ultimately criticize and variously refashion Sidney's heroic image and his literary practice. The sonnet sequence, often neglected in serious study of these writers, is here seen as a forum for the reformation of Petrarchism and an important locus of literary change. |
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... Defence exhibits the structure of a classical oration and contended that a studied sprezzatura accounts for Sidney's disparaging attitude towards his literary vocation . 17 Critics usually concur that the Defence is a sublime literary ...
... Defence exhibits the structure of a classical oration and contended that a studied sprezzatura accounts for Sidney's disparaging attitude towards his literary vocation . 17 Critics usually concur that the Defence is a sublime literary ...
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... Defence would surely be conver- sant with Ciceronian oratory ; familiar with Ovid's Metamorphoses , he might be able to follow Sidney's fugue upon the Midas theme . One reader , in fact , did respond with appropriate judgment and ...
... Defence would surely be conver- sant with Ciceronian oratory ; familiar with Ovid's Metamorphoses , he might be able to follow Sidney's fugue upon the Midas theme . One reader , in fact , did respond with appropriate judgment and ...
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... Defence of Ryme a publication event . It was printed in 1603 with his Panegyrike Congratulatorie to His Majestie ( King James ) , a bold poem of admonition , praise , and self- promotion . 68 Of the six additional dedicatory epistles ...
... Defence of Ryme a publication event . It was printed in 1603 with his Panegyrike Congratulatorie to His Majestie ( King James ) , a bold poem of admonition , praise , and self- promotion . 68 Of the six additional dedicatory epistles ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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