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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779830303321

Autore

Wiggins Peter DeSa

Titolo

Donne, Castiglione, and the poetry of courtliness [[electronic resource] /] / Peter DeSa Wiggins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-253-10948-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Disciplina

821/.3

Soggetti

Courtesy in literature

Courts and courtiers in literature

English poetry - Italian influences

Political poetry, English - History and criticism

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-169) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Satirical Art of the Disabused; The Art of Impasse; The English Secretary; Poets and Lawyers; The Future of an Illusion; The Looking Glass; 2 Aesthetic Play; Courtly Art; On his Mistris Ž; Modern Instances; Courtly Comedy; 3 Sprezzatura or Transcendence: From Travesty to Palinode; Travesty; A Lesson in Deportment; Palinode; 4 Discerning Insincerity; The Good Courtier; The Bad Courtier; Sincerity Then and Now; Conclusion; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of CourtlinessPeter DeSa                WigginsThe influence of The Book of the Courtier on the work of                John Donne.John Donne has been described as a ""poet of ambition,""                who used his poems as agents in his quest for preferment among the elites of                Elizabethan and early Stuart London. Until now the extent of the influence on                Donne's work of that era's most influential court text -- Castiglione's The Book of                the Courtier -- has never been fully explored. Courtier was El