Linda Grant

Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

Interdisciplinary in approach and methodologically sophisticated, this book explores the dynamic reception of Latin erotic elegy in Renaissance love poetry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781108493864
• ISBN-10: 1108493866
• Artikelnr.: 56012654

Autorenporträt

Linda Grant has been a Teaching Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has also previously taught at Birkbeck College, University of London in both the English and Classics departments, and at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research focuses on Renaissance discourses of love and the erotic.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'All that rout of lascivious poets that wrote epistles and
ditties of love'; 1. 'Ovid was there and with him were Catullus, Propertius
and Tibullus': transmission, teaching and receptions of Roman love elegy in
the Renaissance; 2. 'For truth and faith in her is laid apart': women's
words and the construction of masculinity in Catullus' Lesbia poems and
Thomas Wyatt; 3. ''Fool', said my muse to me': reading metapoetics in
Propertius 2.1 and 4.7, and Astrophil and Stella 1; 4. 'In six numbers let
my work rise, and subside in five': authority and impotence in Amores 1.5
and 3.7, Donne's 'To his mistress going to bed', and Nashe's Choice of
Valentines; 5. 'My heart ... with love did inly burn': female authorship
and desire in Sulpicia, Mary Sidney's Antonie and Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to
Amphilanthus 1.