| Description |
1 online resource (258 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Burying Love; 1. Love after Death in the Protestant Church; 2. Banishing Death: Wyatt's Petrarchan Poems; 3. Dead Ends: The Elizabethan Sonnet; 4. The Capulet Tomb; 5. The Afterlife of Renaissance Sonnets; 6. Carpe Diem; Conclusion. Limit Cases: Henry King and John Milton; Epilogue: "An Arundel Tomb"; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven-Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch with Laura. But as Ramie Targoff reveals in this elegant study, English love poetry of the Renaissance brought a startling reversal of this tradition: human love became definitively mortal. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly existence, Targoff seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Love poetry, English -- History and criticism -- 16th century
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Love poetry, English -- History and criticism -- 17th century
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Renaissance -- England
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Love in literature.
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Immortality in literature.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Immortality in literature
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Love in literature
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Love poetry, English
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Renaissance
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Lyrik
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Jenseits Motiv
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Liebe Motiv
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Englisch
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Unsterblichkeit Motiv
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226110462 |
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022611046X |
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9780226789590 |
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0226789594 |
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