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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... suggests : Here to revive my selfe my Muse is lead ... t'act her owne part Striving to make , her now contemned arte As faire t'her selfe as possiblie she can . Subtitled " a generall defence of learning , " the poem , like Sidney's ...
... suggests : Here to revive my selfe my Muse is lead ... t'act her owne part Striving to make , her now contemned arte As faire t'her selfe as possiblie she can . Subtitled " a generall defence of learning , " the poem , like Sidney's ...
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... suggest that his rhymes may immortalize ( actually , sanctify ) Laura . In Rime 297 , Petrarch tentatively suggests , " [ P ] erhaps it will happen that I shall consecrate her lovely noble name with this weary pen . " In Rime 327 ...
... suggest that his rhymes may immortalize ( actually , sanctify ) Laura . In Rime 297 , Petrarch tentatively suggests , " [ P ] erhaps it will happen that I shall consecrate her lovely noble name with this weary pen . " In Rime 327 ...
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... suggests that they may have met at Cambridge but is certain that " by the latter part of 1579 Spenser had come to London and was living at Leicester House , that he was on terms of familiarity with Sidney and Dyer , and that they ...
... suggests that they may have met at Cambridge but is certain that " by the latter part of 1579 Spenser had come to London and was living at Leicester House , that he was on terms of familiarity with Sidney and Dyer , and that they ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Divided Aims | 39 |
Astrophil and Stella and the Failure of the Right Poet | 69 |
Copyright | |
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