The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659H. R. Woudhuysen, David Norbrook |
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... Sidney followed a similar programme in his prose epic the Arcadia . Though he is today celebrated as a dashing courtier , his relations with the Queen were somewhat strained , and his ' Ister Bank ' eclogue ( no . 14 ) shows why . The ...
... Sidney followed a similar programme in his prose epic the Arcadia . Though he is today celebrated as a dashing courtier , his relations with the Queen were somewhat strained , and his ' Ister Bank ' eclogue ( no . 14 ) shows why . The ...
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... Sidney was defensive about writing love - sonnets rather than some more serious kind of verse , his sister Mary confined herself mainly to translations . The very uncertainty of how to name her reflects the tensions inherent in her ...
... Sidney was defensive about writing love - sonnets rather than some more serious kind of verse , his sister Mary confined herself mainly to translations . The very uncertainty of how to name her reflects the tensions inherent in her ...
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... Sidney's sonnet sequence ( the earliest in the English language ) was probably written during 1581-2 , when Sidney seems to have been in love with Penelope Devereux , the sister of the Earl of Essex . She married Robert , Lord Rich , on ...
... Sidney's sonnet sequence ( the earliest in the English language ) was probably written during 1581-2 , when Sidney seems to have been in love with Penelope Devereux , the sister of the Earl of Essex . She married Robert , Lord Rich , on ...
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Æsops armes beauty brest Countess of Pembroke court Cupid dayes delight discourse Donne Donne's doth douth earth eccho ring England English eyes Faerie Queene faire farre feare flowers fortune George Puttenham golden grace Greensleeves hand hart hast hath heaven Hero humanist J. G. A. Pocock John JOHN DONNE Jove joyes Katherine Philips King Lady Lady Mary Wroth language Leander light live London Lord lovers lyke Mary Sidney minde Muse never night pleasure poem poetic poetry poets political praise Princes Queene Renaissance rhetoric seeme selfe shee Shepheards shew shining side-note Sidney sight sing Sir Philip Sidney song SONNET sorrow soule Spenser Sunne sweet tell texts thee theyr thine things thinke Thomas Nashe thos thou thought thow traditional tyme unto vallies Venus verse vertue warr weare wher woes women words
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English Literature in Context Paul Poplawski,Valerie Allen,Andrew Hiscock,Lee Morrissey No preview available - 2008 |