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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... fashion Sidney's posthumous image , then draws upon it for self - justification as a poet and patronage - seeker . Phillips's maneuver will be executed with more subtlety in Delia , as Daniel recommends himself to the countess of ...
... fashion Sidney's posthumous image , then draws upon it for self - justification as a poet and patronage - seeker . Phillips's maneuver will be executed with more subtlety in Delia , as Daniel recommends himself to the countess of ...
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... fashion her response to matters of foreign policy and marriage . The left - wing Protestants , among them Leicester and Sidney , were urging a policy of direct aid to the Protestant rebels in the Netherlands . Indeed , Sidney may have ...
... fashion her response to matters of foreign policy and marriage . The left - wing Protestants , among them Leicester and Sidney , were urging a policy of direct aid to the Protestant rebels in the Netherlands . Indeed , Sidney may have ...
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... fashion myriad virtuous gentlemen and women , however , the Amoretti sonnets fashion two lovers , Spenser and his lady - bride . The poet's models are not legendary heroes like Arthur or the Italian lovers Petrarch and Laura but a ...
... fashion myriad virtuous gentlemen and women , however , the Amoretti sonnets fashion two lovers , Spenser and his lady - bride . The poet's models are not legendary heroes like Arthur or the Italian lovers Petrarch and Laura but a ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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