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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... spiritual work of true learning ) that restores God's image to defaced man ; it is man himself rebuilt by his Maker ( hence the rhyme with " humble heart " ) . In the spiritual poems concluding Caelica , the speaker struggles towards ...
... spiritual work of true learning ) that restores God's image to defaced man ; it is man himself rebuilt by his Maker ( hence the rhyme with " humble heart " ) . In the spiritual poems concluding Caelica , the speaker struggles towards ...
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... spiritual redemption . Spenser's lovers imitate Christ's immortal love not in order to transcend carnality ( Petrarch's goal ) but in order to bring their own earthly love to fruition in marriage . Amoretti and Christian Marriage Gently ...
... spiritual redemption . Spenser's lovers imitate Christ's immortal love not in order to transcend carnality ( Petrarch's goal ) but in order to bring their own earthly love to fruition in marriage . Amoretti and Christian Marriage Gently ...
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... spiritual rather than material virtue makes him an ideal Christian husband - to - be . Juan Luis Vives , in The Office and Duetie of a Husband ( 1553 ) , distinguishes husbands " that love the beautye , or the ryches of their wives ...
... spiritual rather than material virtue makes him an ideal Christian husband - to - be . Juan Luis Vives , in The Office and Duetie of a Husband ( 1553 ) , distinguishes husbands " that love the beautye , or the ryches of their wives ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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