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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 26
Page 113
... pride is not only sinful but possibly sexual as well , given the available connotations of pride and Greville's frequent association of language and seduction.27 Later in the treatise , for example , Greville complains that truth has ...
... pride is not only sinful but possibly sexual as well , given the available connotations of pride and Greville's frequent association of language and seduction.27 Later in the treatise , for example , Greville complains that truth has ...
Page 201
... pride . ( Am 5 : 9-14 ) This virtuous pride is informed by a consciousness of what befits one's position ; it prevents one from behaving unworthily . This pride is a mark of the lady's well - tempered nature , in which “ Myld humblesse ...
... pride . ( Am 5 : 9-14 ) This virtuous pride is informed by a consciousness of what befits one's position ; it prevents one from behaving unworthily . This pride is a mark of the lady's well - tempered nature , in which “ Myld humblesse ...
Page 210
... pride and humility present an apparent conundrum , an oxymoron that resolves itself into an affirmation of the ... pride , " mild humblesse " and " awful majesty , " and promises that " such lowlinesse shall make you lofty be . " ) The ...
... pride and humility present an apparent conundrum , an oxymoron that resolves itself into an affirmation of the ... pride , " mild humblesse " and " awful majesty , " and promises that " such lowlinesse shall make you lofty be . " ) The ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
action Amoretti association Astrophil and Stella authority beauty Caelica calls Cambridge claims conventional countess courtier critics cultural Daniel David death dedicated Defence Delia desire discussion divine doth edited elegy Elizabeth Elizabethan England English English Studies example expresses eyes fashion female figure final finds force grace Greville Greville's heroic History honor human humanist husband ideal imagines imitate John King lady language learning letter Literary Literature live London Lord lover marriage Mary Mary Sidney means mind mistress moral move Muses nature never Oxford Petrarch Petrarchan poem poet poet's poetic poetry political praise present pride Princeton Protestant queen reader refer Renaissance Rhetoric role Samuel sequence sexual Sidney's Sir Philip Sidney social sonnet speaker Spenser Studies suggests Thomas thoughts tradition true turn University Press verse virtue virtuous wife writing York