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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... mind . ( AS 99 : 5-14 ) The psalmist longs for the Lord as a sleepless man awaits the morning . Sidney intensifies this sense of anticipation , for Astrophil's innocent expectation of waking confronts his profound dread of final ...
... mind . ( AS 99 : 5-14 ) The psalmist longs for the Lord as a sleepless man awaits the morning . Sidney intensifies this sense of anticipation , for Astrophil's innocent expectation of waking confronts his profound dread of final ...
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... mind : Nathan the prophet , who , when the holy David had so far forsaken God as to confirm adultery with murder ... [ did ] the tenderest office of a friend in laying his own shame before his eyes . . . which made David . . . as in a ...
... mind : Nathan the prophet , who , when the holy David had so far forsaken God as to confirm adultery with murder ... [ did ] the tenderest office of a friend in laying his own shame before his eyes . . . which made David . . . as in a ...
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... mind . " Though his " love doth in her selfe containe / all this worlds riches that may farre be found " ( 15 : 5-6 ) , her virtue caps all her beauties : “ that which fairest is , but few behold , / her mind adornd with vertues ...
... mind . " Though his " love doth in her selfe containe / all this worlds riches that may farre be found " ( 15 : 5-6 ) , her virtue caps all her beauties : “ that which fairest is , but few behold , / her mind adornd with vertues ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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