Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry
Lascivious Poets
$41.99 (C)
- Author: Linda Grant, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Date Published: July 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108725644
$
41.99
(C)
Paperback
Other available formats:
Hardback, eBook
Looking for an examination copy?
This title is not currently available for examination. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an examination copy. To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching.
-
How did Latin erotic elegy influence and shape sixteenth-century English love poetry? Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book offers detailed readings of poetry with close attention to the erotic, sometimes problematically 'pornographic', 'wanton' and 'lascivious' verse that exists in both periods. Moving beyond arguments that relate Renaissance eroticism more or less solely back to Ovid and Petrarch, Linda Grant breaks new ground by demonstrating the extent to which a broader sense of classical, specifically Latin, erotics underpins conceptions of sexual love, gender and desire in Renaissance literature. Methodologically sophisticated and moving away from static source study to the dynamism of intertextuality and reception, Grant shows the value of dialogic readings, exploring how elegy speaks to Renaissance poetry and how reading poems from both periods together illuminates both sets of verse.
Read more- Offers fresh and original readings of both Latin and Renaissance poetry as well as exploring the sometimes surprising and unexpected connections between them
- Widens the contours of erotic love and revitalises the debates about what love is, does and means in literary terms
- Develops and extends reception methodology to revitalise how we think about the relationships and points of intertextual contacts between texts
Reviews & endorsements
‘… the most enjoyable thing about this volume is the author’s delight in the poetry she presents to the reader, which is described within the space of a couple of pages as ‘exuberant’, ‘un-anxious’, ‘creative’ and ‘confident, even blasé’, with an ‘untroubled “pick-and-mix” approach’ to reception that is ‘programmatically promiscuous’. For G.,[Linda Grant] Renaissance classical reception is a playful and imaginative adventure-and her enthusiasm carries the reader along.' Cora Beth Knowles, Classics for All
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: July 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108725644
- length: 271 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.409kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email lecturers@cambridge.org
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×