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Here are the names of some long Petrarchan sonnet
sequences from late Elizabethan Enagland off the top of
my head:Sidney: Astrophil and Stella
Watson: Heckotompathia, Or the Passionate Century of Love
(a fabulous name which means - 100 love poems)
Daniel: Delia
Crayton: Idea
Barnes: Parthenophe to Pathenophil
Spenser: Amoretti
Greville: Caelica
Wroth: Pamphilia to Amphilantus
The form becomes one of the cliche courtly modes of the 1590 -
literary historians talk about "the sonet boom."Shakespere's is unlike any of them in certain ways, but
in order to talk abut their authenticity you need to
know the conventions of the form.The play analogy is a fine one: lots of people wrote plays.
In fact, lots of people wrote history plays in the 1590s.
And FOR THAT REASON you would not feel that Henry V was
in any immediate, transparent way reflective of Shakespeare's
life. To get at what the person thought, you'd need to know
the conventions of patriotic history plays.
Posted by Cloten on April 11, 1997 at 09:59:45
In Reply to "Everyone Wrote Hundreds of Sonnets? " posted by Prof Mike on April 11, 1997 at 03:06:53
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