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Author Targoff, Ramie.

Title Posthumous Love : Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England / Ramie Targoff.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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Subject Love poetry, English -- History and criticism -- 16th century.
Love poetry, English.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Love poetry, English -- History and criticism -- 17th century.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Renaissance -- England.
Renaissance.
England.
Love in literature.
Love in literature.
Immortality in literature.
Immortality in literature.
Chronological Term 1500-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry.
Poetry.
ISBN 9780226110462 (electronic book)
022611046X (electronic book)
9780226789590 (print)
0226789594