The representation of love in the Elizabethan sonnet
The representation of love in the Elizabethan sonnet

Author: Steffen Laaß

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2007-03-20

Total Pages: 10

ISBN-13: 3638618137

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Essay from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Nottingham, course: Early Modern Love, language: English, abstract: Love has always been a recurring popular theme in literature because it raises a lot of intriguing questions. In this short essay, I want to explore the relationship between love and its presentation within one specific literary genre - the Elizabethan sonnet. By way of introduction, I will outline the nature of love and some sonnetary characteristics. I will then bring both concepts together to identify common features. Finally, the theme of love in one selected sonnet will be explored.

Amoretti
Amoretti

Author: Edmunde Spenser

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021097163

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This is a collection of sonnets written by the legendary poet Edmund Spenser. The sonnets are a tribute to the poet's love for a woman named Elizabeth Boyle. They are written in a traditional Elizabethan style and are known for their beauty and romanticism. This book is a must-have for students of English literature and lovers of poetry. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The early modern English sonnet
The early modern English sonnet

Author: Laetitia Sansonetti

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2020-04-23

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1526144417

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This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both with major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Harvey, Barnes) sonneteers, and includes the first modern edition of a 1603 printed miscellany, The Muses Garland.

The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Author: Helen Vendler

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1999-11

Total Pages: 693

ISBN-13: 0674637127

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Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.

The Literature Workbook
The Literature Workbook

Author: Clara Calvo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1134700318

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The Literature Workbook is a practical introductory textbook for literary studies, which can be used either for independent study or as part of a taught class. Laying the ground for further study, The Literature Workbook introduces the beginning student to the essential analytic and interpretative skills that are needed for literary appreciation and evaluation. It also equips the teacher with practical tools and materials for use in seminars or when setting written assessments and projects. Arranged according to genre and chronology, the chapters acquaint the reader with a range of key figures in English literaure and encourage the reader to think about them in their historical and cultural contexts. Adopting a user-friendly case-study approach, each chapter contains * exercises and activities * discussion hints * project work * suggestions for further reading The Workbook also includes: * a glossary * a subject and name index.

The Art of the Sonnet
The Art of the Sonnet

Author: Stephen Burt

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780674048140

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"Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante Gabriel Rossetti called it, "a moment's monument." From the Renaissance to the present, the sonnet has given poets a superb vehicle for private contemplation, introspection, and the expression of passionate feelings and thoughts." "The Art of the Sonnet collects one hundred exemplary sonnets of the English language (and a few sonnets in translation), representing highlights in the history of the sonnet, accompanied by short commentaries on each of the poems. The commentaries by Stephen Burt and David Mikics offer new perspectives and insights, and, taken together, demonstrate the enduring as well as changing nature of the sonnet. The authors serve as guides to some of the most-celebrated sonnets in English as well as less-well-known gems by nineteenth- and twentieth-century poets. Also included is a general introductory essay, in which the authors examine the sonnet form and its long and fascinating history, from its origin in medieval Sicily to its English appropriation in the sixteenth century to sonnet writing today in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other English-speaking parts of the world." --Book Jacket.

Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet
Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet

Author: P. Innes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1997-08-04

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0230372910

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This book is an analysis of the sonnet in the English Renaissance. It especially traces the relations between Shakespeare's sonnets and the ways in which other writers use the form. It looks at how the poetry fits into the historical situation at the time, with regard to images of the family and of women. Its exploration of these issues is informed by much recent work in critical theory, which it tries to make as accessible as possible.

The Cult of Elizabeth
The Cult of Elizabeth

Author: Roy C. Strong

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780520058408

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No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. Central to that flowering was the enigmatic legend of the Queen herself, a myth deliberately created and sustained over four decades by public spectacle and courtly chivalry, by private sonnet and official oration.