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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... poet or finding a receptive reader.2 25 Still , he maintains that poetry is the best means of self - improvement , for it not only teaches but also moves the will to embrace virtue . The right poet's modest and moral goal is to ...
... poet or finding a receptive reader.2 25 Still , he maintains that poetry is the best means of self - improvement , for it not only teaches but also moves the will to embrace virtue . The right poet's modest and moral goal is to ...
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... poet reasserts control with his moral message that love sonnets are a misuse , if not abuse , of poetry . To write them abrogates the duty to be a right poet , a designation that shifts towards that of divine poet , despite Sidney's ...
... poet reasserts control with his moral message that love sonnets are a misuse , if not abuse , of poetry . To write them abrogates the duty to be a right poet , a designation that shifts towards that of divine poet , despite Sidney's ...
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... poet's deceits and perceive correctly the right poet's meanings . But the reader , of course , shares the " common infection " of humanity with the poet . ( Sidney imagines this reader as a recalcitrant child who must be tricked into ...
... poet's deceits and perceive correctly the right poet's meanings . But the reader , of course , shares the " common infection " of humanity with the poet . ( Sidney imagines this reader as a recalcitrant child who must be tricked into ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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