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

Lascivious Poets

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

Lascivious Poets

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. Textual Note
  7. Introduction: ‘All That Rout of Lascivious Poets That Wrote Epistles and Ditties of Love’
  8. Chapter 1 ‘Ovid Was There and with Him Were Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus’: Transmission, Teaching and Receptions of Roman Love Elegy in the Renaissance
  9. Chapter 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
  10. Chapter 3 ‘“Fool,” Said My Muse to Me’: Reading Metapoetics in Propertius 2.1 and 4.7, and Astrophil and Stella 1
  11. Chapter 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
  12. Chapter 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
  13. Conclusion: ‘And Love Doth Hold My Hand and Makes Me Write’
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index