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The Cambridge companion to the sonnet
\"Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Two Loves I Have
Perhaps the most astonishing set of personal poems ever written, Shakespeare's Sonnets have both delighted and puzzled readers down the ages. Two Loves I Have is a reading of the sequence that brings the four characters involved to life. The 'fair, kind and true' young man to whom the majority of poems are addressed, the woman 'as black as hell, as dark as night' who dominates a part of the narrator's inner landscape against his will, the narrator himself, who at times is unexpectedly wholly at ease with his mistress, but at other times is sunk in a form of self-loathing, and whom nothing on earth will deter in his devotion to the young man ... these three play out a drama as fierce as that in any of the author's plays. And the author himself, at some remove behind the narrator, is the shadowy fourth character. Did he invent the young man and the Dark Lady? Did he adapt an existing situation in his life or indeed record it simply as it was? Whatever the historical fact, which can never be known, the poetic situation is enthralling. Without insisting on any particular view, Two Loves I Have (from sonnet 144) allows the reader a vista of the whole sonnet sequence, and a sense of its shifting currents. J. D. Winter carefully elucidates each individual poem, thus enabling the reader not only to come to terms with their outward meaning but to appreciate the rhetorical flow and the poet's idiosyncratic use of the sonnet-form itself. The sonnet sequence has been a comparatively neglected part of the Shakespearean canon. The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016 is an appropriate time to shed a new light upon the poems.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today.
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Authority and Influence in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
This thesis explores why and how Lady Mary Wroth interacts with literary authorities and influences in her sonnet sequence, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (printed in 1621). It argues that Wroth alludes to Ovid's Metamorphoses and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella in order to present herself as an heir and continuer of Sidney's poetic and political legacy, and as an authority in her own right. Alongside these authorities, it also considers contemporary influences on Wroth's work, such as the Neo-stoic writings of Justus Lipsius, and the poetry of Wroth's cousin and lover, William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke. In her engagement with literary authorities, Wroth employs a strategy of heuristic imitation to establish both her erudition and her originality. Her work sets out to draw attention to her thorough knowledge of her source material, but then diverges from it in order to demonstrate her original contribution. Wroth draws upon the theme of the constant soul in the changing body that runs throughout Ovid's Metamorphoses to create a narrative of continuity between her poetic voice and that of her uncle, Philip Sidney. In order to situate Wroth's work in its political context, this thesis explores the influence of contemporary Neo-stoic discourses on Wroth's work by identifying imagery shared by Wroth's sonnet sequence, Fulke Greville's A Letter to an Honourable Lady, and Justus Lipsius' On Constancy. The thesis follows and extends the work of scholars such as William Kennedy, Rosalind Smith, Christopher Warley, and Madeline Bassnett by arguing that Wroth's work should be read as part of a discussion of contemporary politics.
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