Description |
1 online resource (258 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Burying Love; 1. Love after Death in the Protestant Church; 2. Banishing Death: Wyatt's Petrarchan Poems; 3. Dead Ends: The Elizabethan Sonnet; 4. The Capulet Tomb; 5. The Afterlife of Renaissance Sonnets; 6. Carpe Diem; Conclusion. Limit Cases: Henry King and John Milton; Epilogue: "An Arundel Tomb"; Notes; Index. |
Summary |
For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven-Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch with Laura. But as Ramie Targoff reveals in this elegant study, English love poetry of the Renaissance brought a startling reversal of this tradition: human love became definitively mortal. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly existence, Targoff seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Love poetry, English -- History and criticism -- 16th century.
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Love poetry, English. |
Chronological Term |
16th century |
Subject |
Love poetry, English -- History and criticism -- 17th century.
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Chronological Term |
17th century |
Subject |
Renaissance -- England.
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Renaissance. |
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England. |
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Love in literature.
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Love in literature. |
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Immortality in literature.
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Immortality in literature. |
Chronological Term |
1500-1699 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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ISBN |
9780226110462 (electronic book) |
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022611046X (electronic book) |
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9780226789590 (print) |
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0226789594 |
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