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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... doth waste , my knowledge brings forth toyes , My wit doth strive those passions to defend , Which for reward spoile it with vaine annoyes . I see my course to lose my selfe doth bend : I see and yet no greater sorow take Then that I ...
... doth waste , my knowledge brings forth toyes , My wit doth strive those passions to defend , Which for reward spoile it with vaine annoyes . I see my course to lose my selfe doth bend : I see and yet no greater sorow take Then that I ...
Page 81
... Doth even grow rich , naming my Stella's name " ( AS 35 : 10-11 ) . As Sidney's oration defended poor poetry , Astrophil's sonnets defend his much - criticized love for Stella . To his accusing friend , who says that desire leads him ...
... Doth even grow rich , naming my Stella's name " ( AS 35 : 10-11 ) . As Sidney's oration defended poor poetry , Astrophil's sonnets defend his much - criticized love for Stella . To his accusing friend , who says that desire leads him ...
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... doth endite , And love doth hold my hand , and makes me write " ( AS 90 : 13-14 ; emphasis added ) . " Love ( II ) , " a stichomythic response to " Love I , " picks up on its last line , invoking " Immortal Heat , O let thy greater ...
... doth endite , And love doth hold my hand , and makes me write " ( AS 90 : 13-14 ; emphasis added ) . " Love ( II ) , " a stichomythic response to " Love I , " picks up on its last line , invoking " Immortal Heat , O let thy greater ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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