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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"sonnet sequence"”.
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Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century
… Then I will discuss Petrarch and the serious sonnet sequence tradition, the influence of which is evident in the sonnet sequences of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser. Next, since both the afore-mentioned love traditions are based outside of marriage, I will discuss how the reality of the …
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"Invidiam viam aut faciam": "I will find a way or make one" The poetic practice of political counsel in the courts of Elizabeth I and James I
… their efforts for a just public rule. In his sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, Sir Philip Sidney extends of his more formal counsel to the Queen regarding her affair with the Duke of Alencon. I read Philip's sister, Mary Sidney Herbert, and niece, Mary Wroth, as drawing on Sidney's idea …
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Numerator Denominator
… the collection range from free verse to a nonce sonnet sequence to the repetitive drive of the sestina. The poems are not divided into sections, but are arranged in such a way that connects the themes and flow of the work while still allowing the reader to explore her/his own connections …
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The will of the people: Comedy and the comic persona in Shakespeare's sonnets
… to date, comedy exists in William Shakespeare's sonnet sequence. To substantiate this claim, the study explicates five sonnets, numbers 104, 91, 138, 143, and 130. For social and literary context, the study relies on two seminal works, a sociological treatise examining the play element in culture …
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Fulke Greville's Caelica: The Work of an Elizabethan
In 1633, Fulke Greville's sonnet sequence, Caelica, was posthumously published. In 109 sonnets of varying length, Greville addresses his poems to the woman of the title as well as to "Myra," "Cynthia," and "Gala." The names of these women were used, it seems, quite arbitrarily, and may possibly …
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"Through all maskes my wo"; poet and persona in Astrophil and Stella
… serious discussion of Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, inevitably pauses at the generally acknowledged crux of the work, the fact that on the one hand some of the sonnets seem to reject rhetorical embellishment and use of traditional material, calling instead for …
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Rebel Discords: George Meredith's Metrical Art
… discusses Meredith's experiments with the sonnet tradition, particularly as they relate to his most famous sequence, Modern Love. While most critics have referred to this poem as a sonnet sequence, a formal analysis reveals that the poem's formal provenance is indeterminate. The reason …
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Playing Jonah's Hand: Poems
… of agency for the speaker in John Donne's "Holy Sonnets." Working upon Barbara Lewalski's assertion that these sonnets represent "the Protestant paradigm of salvation in its stark, dramatic, Pauline terms," I consider the role of the imagination in the spiritual transformation represented within …
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Speech, Voice and Parable: Reading and Writing through Auden (Letters to Auden, a Reading of His Poems, and a Serial Poem of Barack Hussein Obama)
… of his poetic voice; and fourthly, that in the sonnet sequence “In Time of War”, Auden uses parable to combine lyric and narrative elements in order to universalise the Sino-Japanese War. Some of the issues raised in the chapters of critical analysis, such as poetic truth, poetic voice, the …
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"This stage of woe" : the petrarchanism of Mary Wroth
… the first Englishwoman to write a Petrarchan sonnet sequence, creates a counterdiscourse which comments on and contributes to English love poetry. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is addressed from a female lover to a male beloved, and this thesis discusses the implications of this unusual Petrarchan …
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Obscurity and the mythic quest for shape: a discussion and explication of Dylan Thomas' Altarwise by Owl-light
Dylan Thomas' obscure sonnet sequence, Altarwise by Owl-light, has "inspired more comment and caused more disagreement than anything else by Thomas." Reading the sequence is like experiencing a confused nightmare or dream vision, for the poem is curiously primitive and myth-like. Through the …
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The other cross-channel neighbor: Imagining and appropriating Belgium in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
… past while acknowledging Belgian modernity. The sonnet sequence echoes a different use of Belgium (aiming at changing opinions at home) as well as a waning interest of Victorians in Belgium starting in the late 1840s. Finally, chapter four focuses on Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire …
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Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603
… because—as commonplaces of Elizabethan sonneteering—they could have been spoken by anyone. So it is that they appeared in the 1599 'Passionate Pilgrim', extracted from the play, and presented as Shakespeare’s first sonnet-sequence. I use this anthology to consider the often tenuous …