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Transcript of Looking ahead Plans for remaining weeks in the quarter Handouts.
Sidney
Astrophil and Stella Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich
Sonnet Italian
Sonnet cycle—first recognizable one in English 108 sonnets and 11 songs
Way of looking at a collection of sonnets rather than a “plot”
Neoplatonism
“Divine Beauty” through an “earthly lover”
“material world is a path to the spiritual world, rather than an obstacle to or diversion from it”
(Murfin and Ray, 292)
Petrarchanism--Neoplatonism Petrarch—14th c. Italian poet, Francesco
Petrarca Sonnet form plus distinctive use of:
Imagery Figures of speech Formal style Petrarchan conceit (exaggerated portrait of lady’s
beauty and cruelty) Hyperbole Oxymoron
Sonnet form
14 lines rhymed iambic pentameter 2 forms for Sidney/Shakespeare Italian/Petrarchan English/Shakespearean
Mapping a sonnet
Considering scansion
Who will in fairest booke of nature know
How virtue may best lodged in beauty be,
Let him but learn of love to read in thee,
Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show.
There shall he find all vices overthrow,
Not by rude force, but sweetest sovereignty
Sonnet 1
Look in thy heart and write Sonnet is about love, but also about writing
and style, about “invention” Some elements to know: alexandrine (iambic
hexameter), “fain” (l. 1), childbirth metaphor, How does the poem flow? Does the lady get to speak?
Sonnet 31
Personification of the Moon Speaker standing outside the courtly world Opening monosyllables and repetitions
Sonnet 9
Petrarchan convention (see also sonnet 6) “Rich” Penelope Rich, an idealized love, Queen
Elizabeth?
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Form: 3 Quatrains/Couplet abab cdcd efef gg
The sonnet vogue
Shakespeare as icon and the perils of autobio-crit.
The Defence of Poesy
Three types of poets p. 958
Vates—Prophets Philosophical Poets “Right” poets—”to teach and delight”
(echo of Chaucer’s “sentence and solaas?)
Poetry improves humanity
Delivering a golden world (957) Cyrus (957) Erected wit/infected will (957) Poetry draws us to perfection (neoplatonic)
(959) Architectonike (960)
Sidney’s response
“No learning is so good as that which teacheth and moveth to virtue” (967)
“of all writers under the sun the poet is the least liar” (967)