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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... Petrarchan lady and used it to her own advantage in encounters both amorous and political.56 She uses Petrarchan rhetoric in a sonnet thought to be a response to the departure of the duke of Alençon after it became clear that their long ...
... Petrarchan lady and used it to her own advantage in encounters both amorous and political.56 She uses Petrarchan rhetoric in a sonnet thought to be a response to the departure of the duke of Alençon after it became clear that their long ...
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... Petrarchan perfor- mances " ; that is , he assumes the role of subordinate to a powerful authority , figured as a Petrarchan mistress who both inspires and impedes his erotic or political ambitions and his mastery as a right poet . This ...
... Petrarchan perfor- mances " ; that is , he assumes the role of subordinate to a powerful authority , figured as a Petrarchan mistress who both inspires and impedes his erotic or political ambitions and his mastery as a right poet . This ...
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... Petrarchan love poetry to examine contemporary social and political relationships.24 Thomas Carew , a poet and Caroline courtier par excellence , offers an opportunity to study the fate of humanist poetry and the fortunes of Petrarchism ...
... Petrarchan love poetry to examine contemporary social and political relationships.24 Thomas Carew , a poet and Caroline courtier par excellence , offers an opportunity to study the fate of humanist poetry and the fortunes of Petrarchism ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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