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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... Beauty's virtue is never seriously threatened . The paradox of Desire is articulated by one of Beauty's defenders : " [ N ] o soner hath desire what he desireth , but that he dieth presently : so that when Bewtie yeeldeth once to desire ...
... Beauty's virtue is never seriously threatened . The paradox of Desire is articulated by one of Beauty's defenders : " [ N ] o soner hath desire what he desireth , but that he dieth presently : so that when Bewtie yeeldeth once to desire ...
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... beauty : the immortal goodness of that God who giveth us hands to write and wits to conceive . " Sidney's phrasing implicitly opposes mortal beauty ( Stella ) to immortal beauty and goodness ( God ) , and his own sonnets ultimately ...
... beauty : the immortal goodness of that God who giveth us hands to write and wits to conceive . " Sidney's phrasing implicitly opposes mortal beauty ( Stella ) to immortal beauty and goodness ( God ) , and his own sonnets ultimately ...
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... beauty is surpassed by the beauty of her soul : But if ye saw that which no eyes can see , The inward beauty of her lively spright , Garnisht with heavenly guifts of high degree , Much more then would ye wonder at that sight , And stand ...
... beauty is surpassed by the beauty of her soul : But if ye saw that which no eyes can see , The inward beauty of her lively spright , Garnisht with heavenly guifts of high degree , Much more then would ye wonder at that sight , And stand ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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