The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
as careful records of local events not otherwise noted. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle provides important records of history, as well ...
Exeter Book contain descriptions of Guthlac’s battles with heathens and struggles against attacks by demons. Several Anglo-Saxon ...
a personifi ed abstraction—is directly addressed. For example, in the fi rst line of SIR PHILIP SIDNEY’s Sonnet 31 from ASTROPHI ...
what most people know about the story of Arthur today. Malory combined stories that had been written to produce a large work foc ...
BRUT (1189–99) has a strong Welsh overtone and a sense of the supernatural; his Arthur is a fi erce warrior- king. Clearly, Laya ...
Joseph of Arimathea (ca. 1500). Of Arthour and Merlin is based on Estoire de Merlin but is more concerned with action sequences ...
Wilhelm, James J., ed. The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation. New York and London: Garland, 1994. ...
of The Art of English Poesie, Sir THOMAS WYATT and HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY, went to Italy and brought back the verse forms ...
part of his reign and who were, to Surrey’s way of thinking, corrupting the king. During his short life, Surrey sometimes fell a ...
taken among scholars to be authoritative since its pub- lication was overseen by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT, COUNT- ESS OF PEMBROKE, th ...
conventions to discuss physical love, notably Sir Thomas Wyatt in “THEY FLEE FROM ME,” Sidney is the fi rst to so fully address ...
Kalstone, David. “Sir Philip Sidney and ‘Poore Petrarchs Long Deceased Woes.’ ” In Sir Philip Sidney: An Anthol- ogy of Modern C ...
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 2 (“Not at fi rst sight, nor with a dribbèd shot”) SIR PHILIP SID- NEY (ca. 1582) The second poem o ...
had tentative plans to marry in 1576, but she married Lord Rich instead. This sonnet marks the beginning of the possible biograp ...
He then concludes, “[It is] yet true that I must Stella love” (l. 14). See also ASTROPHIL AND STELLA (OVERVIEW), ITALIAN (PETRAR ...
NEY frequently used in Astrophil and Stella. Although the turn occurs at line 9, as is usual in Italian sonnets, the forceful CO ...
he tells lesser poets to look at Stella and then begin to write (l. 14). Like the typical poet-lover, Astrophil pro- tests that ...
love being congruous with Adam’s knowledge of good and evil. See also ASTROPHIL AND STELLA (OVERVIEW); SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP. FURTH ...
Astrophil and Stella: Sonnet 21 (“Your words, my friend—right healthful caustics—blame”) SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (ca. 1582) In Sonnet ...
(l. 12), as if he were unable to determine whether they overanalyze his actions or merely fail to understand him. Against the ha ...
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