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- catalog abstract "This 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. Stressing the importance of sonnets as producers as well as products of Elizabethan culture, this book is a work of cultural poetics in the broadest sense of the term. Yet its new interpretation of Sidney's importance to his contemporary sonneteers is grounded in the careful analysis of literary texts. In sum, it contends that Greville, Daniel, and Spenser, while working in conventional forms and in the bright shadow of Sidney, nonetheless demonstrate the authority of the individual poet to pressure conventional forms and to refashion Sidney's heroic image.".
- catalog contributor b10754627.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-310) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The exemplary Sir Philip Sidney -- "Mars and the muses meete": the divided aims of Sidney's Defence of poetry -- Astrophil and Stella and the failure of the right poet -- Trophaeum Peccati: Fulke Greville's monuments to Sidney -- Delia, the Countess of Pembroke, and the literary career of Samuel Daniel -- Spenser's Complaints, Astrophel, and the Sidney legend -- Amoretti and the reformation of love poetry -- Postscript: Reformations of Petrachism in seventeenth-century poetry: Herbert, Wroth, and Carew.".
- catalog description "Stressing the importance of sonnets as producers as well as products of Elizabethan culture, this book is a work of cultural poetics in the broadest sense of the term. Yet its new interpretation of Sidney's importance to his contemporary sonneteers is grounded in the careful analysis of literary texts. In sum, it contends that Greville, Daniel, and Spenser, while working in conventional forms and in the bright shadow of Sidney, nonetheless demonstrate the authority of the individual poet to pressure conventional forms and to refashion Sidney's heroic image.".
- catalog description "This 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.".
- catalog extent "319 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan sonneteer.".
- catalog identifier "0874136245 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan sonneteer.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press,".
- catalog relation "Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan sonneteer.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603.".
- catalog subject "821/.3 21".
- catalog subject "English poetry Italian influences.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "PR2343 .K56 1998".
- catalog subject "Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 Influence.".
- catalog subject "Renaissance England.".
- catalog subject "Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Sonnets, English History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The exemplary Sir Philip Sidney -- "Mars and the muses meete": the divided aims of Sidney's Defence of poetry -- Astrophil and Stella and the failure of the right poet -- Trophaeum Peccati: Fulke Greville's monuments to Sidney -- Delia, the Countess of Pembroke, and the literary career of Samuel Daniel -- Spenser's Complaints, Astrophel, and the Sidney legend -- Amoretti and the reformation of love poetry -- Postscript: Reformations of Petrachism in seventeenth-century poetry: Herbert, Wroth, and Carew.".
- catalog title "The exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan sonneteer / Lisa M. Klein.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".