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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... sonnet is a form surprisingly amenable to cultural studies and questions of poetic agency . For a number of reasons , the sonnet sequence proves an ideal arena in which to promote and contest Sidney's exemplarity . An epideictic lyric ...
... sonnet is a form surprisingly amenable to cultural studies and questions of poetic agency . For a number of reasons , the sonnet sequence proves an ideal arena in which to promote and contest Sidney's exemplarity . An epideictic lyric ...
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... sonnet and to promote proper attitudes of submission and service . Astrophil struggles , without much success , to control his aggressive desire and submit to Stella ; Spenser's poet - lover , with more success , submits to the divinity ...
... sonnet and to promote proper attitudes of submission and service . Astrophil struggles , without much success , to control his aggressive desire and submit to Stella ; Spenser's poet - lover , with more success , submits to the divinity ...
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... sonnet 109. Further refer- ences to Greville's sonnets from this edition are cited in the text and abbreviated as ... sonnet 68 : 13-14 . All references to Amoretti and to Spenser's shorter poems are taken from this edition and will ...
... sonnet 109. Further refer- ences to Greville's sonnets from this edition are cited in the text and abbreviated as ... sonnet 68 : 13-14 . All references to Amoretti and to Spenser's shorter poems are taken from this edition and will ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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