Proportional Form in the Sonnets of the Sidney Circle
Loving in Truth
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 February 1998
- ISBN 9780198184430
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 225x144x21 mm
- Weight 479 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures 0
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Short description:
Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella initiated the vogue for sonnet sequences in the 1590s, but has its purpose been mistaken? Focusing on the sonnet sequences of Philip and Robert Sidney, Fulke Greville, Giordano Bruno, Mary Wroth, Henry Constable, Barnabe Barnes, and Michael Drayton, this book reveals a previously unrecognized patterning in their arrangements that ties these most popular `hymns to love' to broader cosmological concerns.
MoreLong description:
The structure of Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella is governed by a distinctive and complex set of proportions, found also in the sonnet sequences of Fulke Greville and Robert Sidney written under its influence. For all these works to be ordered around the same set of proportions indicates a remarkable degree of careful planning and precise execution, and in turn affects their meaning. The tremendous effort of constructing the sequences according to intricate mathematical patterns suggests that the patterns themselves held a particular significance, one that requires investigation for the light it throws on these authors' intentions in composition.
In this study Tom Parker reveals cosmological ideas implicit in the form of Astrophil and Stella, ideas which not only undermine much of the romantic and biographically-based criticism of the sequence, but call into question how we should read the sonnet sequences that were influenced by Sidney, both within and beyond his immediate circle. As well as those of Greville and Robert Sidney, the book looks in detail at the sonnet sequences of Giordano Bruno, Mary Wroth, Henry Constable, Barnabe Barnes, and Michael Drayton, to determine the extent to which the sonnet vogue of the 1590s incorporated Sidney's broader cosmological concerns.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Philip Sidney and Proportional Form - Astrophil and Stella, Certaine Sonets, and Bruno's De gli eroici furori
Fulke Greville and Proportional Form - Caelica in Manuscript and Print
Proportional Form in the Poetry of Robert Sidney and Mary Wroth
Henry Constable and Proportional Form - Diana and Spirituall Sonettes
Barnabe Barnes and Proportional Form - Parthenophil and Parthenophe and Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets
Michael Drayton and Proportional Form - Idea and Other Poems
Conclusion
Illustrations of Proportional Form
Bibliography
Index
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