The Evolution of the English Sonnet or The Corruption of the Italian Sonnet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarcha) (1304-1374): The Petrarchan Sonnet Background: • Wrote a collection called variously Canzoniere (canzone means song)‚ Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Fragments of vernacular things)‚ or Rime Sparse (Scattered Rhymes) • Considered the Father of the sonnet‚ from Ital. sonetto‚ meaning a little song or sound • Wrote a volume containing 366 poems in the Tuscan vernacular; 317 of which are
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Elizabethan Poetry I Drama dominates our syllabus but the Renaissance was a Golden Age not just for English drama‚ but also for English poetry. But what was English poetry? George Puttenham’s The Arte of English Poesie (1589) and Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defense of Poesie (1595): early attempts to think about English poetry as a distinct national tradition. Puttenham and Sidney were concerned to build a canon and help shape English poetry into a tradition capable of rivalling more prestigious
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can be dated with certainty. Arcadia‚ a prose narrative interspersed with verse‚ combines chivalric romance‚ pastoral‚ comedy‚ and debate on ethics and politics. It survives in a complete earlier version and an unfinished expanded version. Astrophil and Stella‚ a cycle of 108 sonnets and 11 songs‚ is one of the first English adaptations of Petrarchan love poetry. By turns witty and tormented‚ it is a lightly disguised and no doubt fictionally embellished treatment of Sidney’s thwarted love for Penelope
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The Faerie Queene. As a young man and writer‚ Spenser looked up to another excellent poet‚ Sir Philip Sidney‚ whose diverse career in politics‚ diplomatic positions‚ writing‚ and the military made him a "Renaissance man" of the time. Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella is a prime example of Elizabethan poetry due to its wit and imaginative creativity.
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his sonnet collection and portays an overarching theme of love. Sir Philip Sydney’s difficulties with love are shown in his collection of sonnets “Astrophil and Stella”. Both poets discuss the complications with love and the desire it creates. For example‚ in sonnet 1 Sydney has trouble conveying his love but hopes that through these sonnets she (Stella) will understand. Shakespeare’s sonnet 129 as well as Sydney sonnet 109 both mention the reason for their hardships with love: what is fueling their
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EARLY RENAISSANCE POETRY: THE POEMS Source Text: Ferguson‚ Margaret‚ et al (eds). The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Fifth Edition. New York: W.W. Norton‚ 2005. 1 Thomas Wyatt 1503 – 1542 The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor1 The long˚ love‚ that in my thought doth harbour‚˚ enduring/lodge And in mine heart doth keep his residence‚ Into my face presseth with bold pretence‚ And therein campeth‚ spreading his banner.2 She that me learneth˚
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A figure of speech is a use of a word that diverges from its normal meaning‚[citation needed] or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it such as a metaphor‚ simile‚ or personification.[citation needed] Figures of speech often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. However‚ clarity may also suffer from their use‚ as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity between literal and figurative interpretation. A figure of speech is sometimes
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What Is A Sonnet? A sonnet‚ from the Italian word sonetto meaning ’little song‚’ is a lyric poem usually with 14 lines of iambic pentameter and a set rhyme scheme. While sonnets can explore all sorts of themes‚ love is the most common‚ and the original topic of the sonnet. Two Major Types The sonnet takes many forms‚ including the Spenserian sonnet and Miltonic sonnet‚ which is just fun to say. But the two most-studied sonnets are the Italian sonnet‚ known as the Petrarchan sonnet‚ and the English
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Question: Show how the voices of writers through many centuries of literature have depicted a variety of mentalities and lifestyles. . Centuries could pass‚ and not many changes could be easily perceived by the common man‚ as those changes came gradually. Yet those changes can be readily discerned when looking at England as a whole‚ not looking at parts of history individually. The alterations of life‚ when looked at from a certain literary viewpoint‚ can be explained when one looks at the
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CLASSICAL BACKGROUND GREEK Background: Mythology‚ Heroic Age‚ Epic‚ Lyric (The Four Schools)‚ Tragedy‚ Comedy. Poetry Prose Drama Homer = Iliad Aristotle=Poetics Sophocles= King Oedipus‚Antigone Odyssey Plato =Republic Aeschylus
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