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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... Protestant agenda . The Oxford Exequiae and the Cambridge Lachrymae were dedicated to Leicester , and Oxford's Peplus was dedicated to the earl of Pembroke , who had married Sidney's sister , Mary.17 Arthur Golding dedicated his ...
... Protestant agenda . The Oxford Exequiae and the Cambridge Lachrymae were dedicated to Leicester , and Oxford's Peplus was dedicated to the earl of Pembroke , who had married Sidney's sister , Mary.17 Arthur Golding dedicated his ...
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... Protestant tension . Åke Bergvall argues in The " Enabling of Judgement " : Sir Philip Sidney and the Education of the Reader ( Stockholm : Almqvist , 1989 ) for the importance of right reason in maximizing hu- man potential , and he ...
... Protestant tension . Åke Bergvall argues in The " Enabling of Judgement " : Sir Philip Sidney and the Education of the Reader ( Stockholm : Almqvist , 1989 ) for the importance of right reason in maximizing hu- man potential , and he ...
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... Protestant princes , and he proposes that Elizabeth knew of Sidney's activities and attempted to recall him ( 40 ) . Howell claims the marriage negotiation was a personal matter sepa- rate from the political matter of the alliance ( 45 ...
... Protestant princes , and he proposes that Elizabeth knew of Sidney's activities and attempted to recall him ( 40 ) . Howell claims the marriage negotiation was a personal matter sepa- rate from the political matter of the alliance ( 45 ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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