SchoolMaster Week III: The sonnet tradition‚ Selected sonnets by Wyatt and Surrey‚ Edmund Spenser‚ Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare. Week IV: Sonnet tradition continued‚ Renaissance lyrics and replies‚ Christopher Marlowe‚ Sir Walter Raleigh Week V : Renaissance ideas about poetry‚ the pastoral tradition and the mythological-erotic convention Week VI: November 9 2011‚ No class‚ Bayram holiday) Week VII: Sidney‚ “An Apology for Poetry”‚ Spenser‚ From Shapheardes Calendar‚ October
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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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critical account of the major British sonnet writers in relation to the sonnet’s history. This volume is tailor-made for students’ needs and will be an essential purchase for anyone studying this enduring poetic form. Poets covered include: Petrarch Wyatt Sidney Shakespeare Spenser Dante Milton Michael R.G.Spiller is Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural History at the University of Aberdeen. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SONNET An Introduction Michael R.G.Spiller London and New York First published
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significant amount of the meaning. The sonnet became popular with poets and the Elizabethans took it up with great enthusiasm after it was introduced into English poetry by Wyatt and Surrey. The Elizabethan poets used it to woo their mistresses and to display their poetic skills. Notable among those poets were Edmund Spenser‚ Sir Philip Sidney and‚ of course‚ William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was very conscious of his skill in writing sonnets and referred to it constantly in the sonnets themselves‚ although
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Sir Philip Sidneys Sonnet 7 is from the sonnet sequence Astophel and Stella dating from the sixteenth century. It is a lament by one of the central figures‚ Astophel‚ a man who is in love with the other central figure‚ Stella‚ who is ultimately unattainable because she is married to another man. In the first few lines of the poem‚ Astrophil talks about Stellas black eyes and how they beam so bright (ll. 2) and how in beamy black (ll. 3) she radiates beauty. The excerpt chosen begins with Or did
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The dominant idea of his 21st sonnet is taken from the 3rd sonnet in Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella‚ and we have seen that Sidney was Petrarchist. The thought developed in his 23rd sonnet‚ namely the inability of love to express itself in words occurs over and over again in Provencal poets‚ and is found in Petrarch’s 41st sonnet‚ which‚ as we have seen‚ was translated also by Wyatt. There is also some connection between his 26th sonnet and that of Petrarch beginning "Amor‚
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Paper-1 Detailed Epithalamion (Spencer) 1.How far is Epithalamion conventional and how far is it personal? (1000) 2. Write a critical appreciation of Spencer’s poems? (1000) Paradise Lost (Milton) 1.Milton’s Invocation to the Muse 2) Milton’s Description of the Hell? 3) Satan’s Speeches in Book one 4) Milton’s description of fallen angles? 5) The construction of Pandemonium? 6)Character sketch—Satan 7) Milton’s Personality 8) Style 9) Milton’s similes in book-1
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Shakespeare’s achievement was largely made possible by the work of his immediate predecessors‚ Sidney and Spenser. <br> <br>Shakespeare’s sonnets are intensely personal and are records of his hopes and fears‚ love and friendships‚ infatuations and disillusions that in turn acquire a universal quality through their intensity. <br> <br>The vogue of the sonnet in the Elizabethan age was brief but was very intense. Sir Thomas Wyatt and The Earl of Surrey brought the Petrarchan sonnet to England and with that an admiration
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I: (Classical Poetry) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Chaucer Milton Donne Pope Wyatt The Prologue Paradise Lost Books I & IX Love/Divine Poems The Rape of the Lock. The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor‚ Whose List to Hunt‚ Madam Withouen Many Words‚ They Flee from Me. Is it Possible Forget Not Yet‚ What should I say Stand who so list. My Friend the Things That Do Attain Love‚ That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought‚ So Cruel Prison‚ Wyatt Resteth Here. 6. Surrey Paper II: (Drama) 1. 2. 3. 4
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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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