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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... finds Verlame's speech incomprehensible , its meaning " above my slender reasons reach " ( RT 487 ) ; her departure ... find all the great Protestant statesmen dead and Burghley's faction ascendant.21 But as the poem moves into the ...
... finds Verlame's speech incomprehensible , its meaning " above my slender reasons reach " ( RT 487 ) ; her departure ... find all the great Protestant statesmen dead and Burghley's faction ascendant.21 But as the poem moves into the ...
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... finds that the final visions provide the true consolatio that directs the narrator to heavenly things and liberates ... finds that Spenser's reversals instill a sense of " vertiginous instability ” in language , as in life , and ...
... finds that the final visions provide the true consolatio that directs the narrator to heavenly things and liberates ... finds that Spenser's reversals instill a sense of " vertiginous instability ” in language , as in life , and ...
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... finds Spenser suggesting in Astrophel's fatal heroism “ a darker psychology than mere recklessness , a malaise bordering in its self - destruc- tiveness on the pathological " ( " Spenser's Astrophel : Myth and the Critique of Val- ues ...
... finds Spenser suggesting in Astrophel's fatal heroism “ a darker psychology than mere recklessness , a malaise bordering in its self - destruc- tiveness on the pathological " ( " Spenser's Astrophel : Myth and the Critique of Val- ues ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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