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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... Petrarch Ralegh's praise of Sidney as the " Petrarch of our time " introduces an important but complex aspect of Sidney's exemplarity : his relation to Petrarch , himself an exemplary vernacular poet and humanist scholar.51 Petrarch was ...
... Petrarch Ralegh's praise of Sidney as the " Petrarch of our time " introduces an important but complex aspect of Sidney's exemplarity : his relation to Petrarch , himself an exemplary vernacular poet and humanist scholar.51 Petrarch was ...
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... Petrarchan language enabled the expression of courtly power relations and one's position within them , whether queen or suitor . If the unattainable and virtuous beloved was one alter ego of the virgin queen , Petrarch was the ...
... Petrarchan language enabled the expression of courtly power relations and one's position within them , whether queen or suitor . If the unattainable and virtuous beloved was one alter ego of the virgin queen , Petrarch was the ...
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... Petrarchan gambit to authorize himself , as in this sonnet from Astrophil and Stella : You that poore Petrarch's long deceased woes , With new - borne sighes and denisend wit do sing ; You take wrong waies , those far - fet helpes be ...
... Petrarchan gambit to authorize himself , as in this sonnet from Astrophil and Stella : You that poore Petrarch's long deceased woes , With new - borne sighes and denisend wit do sing ; You take wrong waies , those far - fet helpes be ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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