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Author Wiggins, Peter DeSa

Title Donne, Castiglione, and the poetry of courtliness / Peter DeSa Wiggins
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 174 pages) : illustrations
Contents The satirical art of the disabused -- The art of impasse -- The English secretary -- Poets and lawyers -- The future of an illusion -- The looking glass -- Aesthetic play -- Courtly art -- "On his Mistris" -- Modern instances -- Courtly comedy -- Sprezzatura or Transcendence: From travesty to palinode -- Travesty -- A lesson in deportment -- Palinode -- Discerning insincerity -- The good courtier -- The bad courtier -- Sincerity then and now
Summary Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of CourtlinessPeter DeSa WigginsThe influence of The Book of the Courtier on the work of John Donne. John Donne has been described as a ""poet of ambition, "" who used his poems as agents in his quest for preferment among the elites of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. Until now the extent of the influence on Donne's work of that era's most influential court text -- Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier -- has never been fully explored. Courtier was El
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-169) and index
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Subject Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Political and social views
Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529. Libro del cortegiano.
Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529 -- Influence
Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Knowledge -- Literature
SUBJECT Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529 fast
Donne, John, 1572-1631 fast
Libro del cortegiano (Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte) fast
Subject Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Political poetry, English -- History and criticism
English poetry -- Italian influences.
Courts and courtiers in literature.
Courtesy in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
Literature
Courtesy in literature
Courts and courtiers in literature
English poetry -- Italian influences
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Political and social views
Political poetry, English
Politics and literature
Gedichten.
Hoofsheid.
Invloed.
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0253109485
9780253109484