Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry: Lascivious Poets (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108493864)

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.

Author: Linda Grant
ISBN-10: 1108493866
ISBN-13: 9781108493864
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2019
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.25w x 0.75d