... that is never realized in the space of the sonnet. As a result, the poetic subject resides deliberately in a grey space of liminality (whose coordinates are the space of the poetic text) on the boundary between absence and presence. Through close analysis of thirteen sonnets, it becomes apparent...

...Rilke took up residence at the Château de Muzot in 1921. He began to write a sequence of poems, which he called ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’. In three days he completed a cycle of 23, in a free handling of the classic sonnet form. Rilke then began working on the Elegies again. In February, he started...

... of Shakespeare's Sonnets. All three projects broke abruptly with traditional treatments. Copley John Singleton individual Parliament reproduction Strong Roy Capell Edward chronology Malone Taylor Gary Benson John Rowe Shakespeare's Works anecdotes Elizabeth I James I Southampton Steevens George...

...’: that is, those features which make them uniquely expressive of their locales. Special attention is given to music and song texts; sonnets; moral verse, and more generally, what can be surmised about the traffic of books in Perthshire in the early seventeenth century. Lude Maitland family manuscripts marks...

... Roman history Baynard’s Castle Bohemia Carr Robert Earl of Somerset Palatinate Villiers George Duke of Buckingham ciphers secretary Bedford House counsel Herbert Philip Earl of Montgomery miniature Wroth Mary Sidney Verse letters elegies and Holy Sonnets grace patronage Lucy Harrington...

...This chapter further discusses Petrarch and Shakespeare, two figures that can be regarded as promoters of the praise of passion. Though Shakespeare is often associated as “anti-Petrarchan,” Petrarch sonnets and other poems in the Canzoniere show a deep continuity with Shakespeare’s...

...This chapter is concerned with the element of antagonism implicit in love. Antagonism appears in a variety of contexts, but most obviously in the group concerning the so-called Dark Lady. The sonnet shares a line of descent with the troubadour poems of courtly love. Unlike the dark woman's...

... to textuality that also draws on the archive. A reading of the Sonnets, written specially for the book, analyses their intricate and ambivalent inscription of desire. Between them, these chapters trace the progress of theory in the course of three decades, while a new introduction offers a narrative...

... quotes Scriptural phrases verbatim now and then, and quotation is the most direct use, unless it is ironical. The second most direct uses are translation and paraphrase, exhibiting the lowest degrees of creativity. Spenser is generally believed to be the translator of the four ‘sonnets’ paraphrased...

... at feminist uses of Sigmund Freud's insights into men's defence mechanisms and Luce Irigaray's critique of a culture dominated by masculine ways of seeing. It then analyses the literary texts of Louise Labé, a bourgeois woman who composed her sonnets in the merchant city of Lyons in the mid-sixteenth century...

...This chapter offers a reading of the dance blason from Pierre de Ronsard's Sonnets pour Hélène. It examines patterns and processes of movement and transformation, order and disorder and unity and diversity in Ronsard's poetry. It also looks at a number...

... failed to see and where he was far-sighted. Frequently criticized as selfish, class-biased discrimination against mass-tourism, or welcomed as a dawn of modern environmentalism, Wordsworth’s anti-railway sonnets and letters published in the Morning Post were in fact more complex than has...

...Chapter 7 discusses how far homoerotic same-sex relationships and close friendships (male and female) challenge heterosexual norms of romance. Shakespeare’s Sonnets, which explore bisexual passion, privilege love for the ‘fair youth’ above lust for the ‘dark’ mistress. In Shakespeare’s theatre...

... with Willaert's settings of three very different Petrarch sonnets. Each sonnet-based madrigal comprises two parts: the first presents the two quatrains, the second the two terzets. Both halves operate within the same mode. Lasso, ch' ľ ardo et altri non mel crede, sì crede ogni uom se non sola colei ch' è...

...This chapter, which examines Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer from the literary perspective of his sonnets, begins by examining Shakespeare's quite different contemporary reputation as a commanding writer. It shows how celebrations of Shakespeare as a sovereign poet were complicated...

...This chapter argues that while the narrative order of Shakespeare’s sonnets 61–99 remains especially untidy, this group has two focal points, each projecting important economic concerns. For simplicity the chapter assumes that, in the 1609 arrangement of Sonnets, the addressee...

.... It recollects that a particular period, the Shakespearian moment, is the heyday of the anagram, especially in its religious intimations. The lecture also tries to illustrate from Shakespeare's Sonnets the secular felicities to which the anagrammatic may variously give rise. Creating euery bad a perfect...

... early sonnets. The main difference is that Shakespeare begins explicitly to critique the myth of perfect mutuality in Much Ado About Nothing as well as in his Tragedy of Othello, plays where all but one male protagonist (Benedick) cruelly punish the women they love...

...Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote six sonnets that can be grouped together as the ‘terrible sonnets’: ‘To Seem the Stranger’, ‘I Wake and Feel’, ‘Patience’, ‘My Own Heart’, ‘Carrion Comfort’, and ‘No Worst, There Is None’. These sonnets all represent a poetic articulation of desolation and abandonment...

...Richard Tottel clearly had no idea in the June of 1557 what a best-seller he would find on his hands when there issued from his press Songs and Sonnets, better known by its publisher's name as Tottel's Miscellany. Tottel's Miscellany is the most popular printed anthology of secular...