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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... divine Creator.33 I would emphasize , however , that this imitation of God's action involves the poet in a demonstration of overweening pride ; " disdaining ... subjection , " flying on wings of his own invention , he overreaches nature ...
... divine Creator.33 I would emphasize , however , that this imitation of God's action involves the poet in a demonstration of overweening pride ; " disdaining ... subjection , " flying on wings of his own invention , he overreaches nature ...
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... divine in origin ( " pure and spotles ... sprong / Out of th ' Almighties bosome " [ TM 388–89 ] ) , is in decline , abused by lewd lovers and bad poets . She complains that she has been “ put from practise of my kindlie skill ...
... divine in origin ( " pure and spotles ... sprong / Out of th ' Almighties bosome " [ TM 388–89 ] ) , is in decline , abused by lewd lovers and bad poets . She complains that she has been “ put from practise of my kindlie skill ...
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... divine object . The originary exemplar of the divine poet is , of course , the psalmist David , and Lewalski has shown how thoroughly Herbert assimilates the Davidic voice into his own poems.5 Herbert's more immediate precursor ...
... divine object . The originary exemplar of the divine poet is , of course , the psalmist David , and Lewalski has shown how thoroughly Herbert assimilates the Davidic voice into his own poems.5 Herbert's more immediate precursor ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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