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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... Imitate his virtues , exercises , studies and actions ; he is a rare ornament of this age , the very formular that all the well - disposed young gentlemen of our Court do form also their manners and life by . In truth I speak it without ...
... Imitate his virtues , exercises , studies and actions ; he is a rare ornament of this age , the very formular that all the well - disposed young gentlemen of our Court do form also their manners and life by . In truth I speak it without ...
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... imitate to teach and delight , and to imitate borrow nothing of what is , hath been , or shall be , but range , only reined with learned discretion , into the divine consideration of what may be and should be . ( 26 ) Despite its ...
... imitate to teach and delight , and to imitate borrow nothing of what is , hath been , or shall be , but range , only reined with learned discretion , into the divine consideration of what may be and should be . ( 26 ) Despite its ...
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... imitate , and imitate both to delight and teach ; and delight , to move men to take that goodness in hand , which without delight they would fly as from a stranger ; and teach , to make them know that goodness whereunto they are moved ...
... imitate , and imitate both to delight and teach ; and delight , to move men to take that goodness in hand , which without delight they would fly as from a stranger ; and teach , to make them know that goodness whereunto they are moved ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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