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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Page 46
... failure to be a divine poet . This failure , though , has its own function : it enables him to preempt criticism of his poetic efforts and to maintain humility in the face of his fallen humanity , avoiding the hubris of rivaling the ...
... failure to be a divine poet . This failure , though , has its own function : it enables him to preempt criticism of his poetic efforts and to maintain humility in the face of his fallen humanity , avoiding the hubris of rivaling the ...
Page 68
... failure . For Sidney , the purpose of poetic making was not to transcend nature or repudiate history but to control and fashion them . This fantasy of the poet's omnipotence , the Defence of Poetry , is on one level a successful fiction ...
... failure . For Sidney , the purpose of poetic making was not to transcend nature or repudiate history but to control and fashion them . This fantasy of the poet's omnipotence , the Defence of Poetry , is on one level a successful fiction ...
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... failure , seen in terms of the Hercules model , is more than just a moral one ; it is a failure of virtue conceived in heroic , activist terms - the collapse of the ideal of the courtier - poet at the center of public life . Astrophil's ...
... failure , seen in terms of the Hercules model , is more than just a moral one ; it is a failure of virtue conceived in heroic , activist terms - the collapse of the ideal of the courtier - poet at the center of public life . Astrophil's ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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