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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... rhetoric and prudential action , recognizing that " the power of poetry to persuade to right action depends on the reader's ... access to a standard of judgment that would enable him to make an appropriate interpretation of and response ...
... rhetoric and prudential action , recognizing that " the power of poetry to persuade to right action depends on the reader's ... access to a standard of judgment that would enable him to make an appropriate interpretation of and response ...
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... Rhetoric and Historical Con- sciousness in Florentine Literature ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1970 ) . On vernacular models for Renaissance poets , see John N. King , English Reformation Literature : The Tudor Origins of ...
... Rhetoric and Historical Con- sciousness in Florentine Literature ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1970 ) . On vernacular models for Renaissance poets , see John N. King , English Reformation Literature : The Tudor Origins of ...
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... Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Lit- erature ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1992 ) . See Mary Thomas Crane , " Video et Taceo ' : Elizabeth I and the Rhetoric of Counsel , " Studies in English Litera- ture ...
... Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Lit- erature ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1992 ) . See Mary Thomas Crane , " Video et Taceo ' : Elizabeth I and the Rhetoric of Counsel , " Studies in English Litera- ture ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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