03051nam 2200613 a 450 991081921260332120200520144314.00-253-10948-5(CKB)111056485405164(EBL)138202(OCoLC)437250152(SSID)ssj0000140913(PQKBManifestationID)11132268(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140913(PQKBWorkID)10054966(PQKB)10563214(MiAaPQ)EBC138202(Au-PeEL)EBL138202(CaPaEBR)ebr10018380(EXLCZ)9911105648540516420000516d2000 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDonne, Castiglione, and the poetry of courtliness /Peter DeSa Wiggins1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20001 online resource (186 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-33814-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-169) and index.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 AuthorDonne, 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 ElCourtesy in literatureCourts and courtiers in literatureEnglish poetryItalian influencesPolitical poetry, EnglishHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureGreat BritainHistory17th centuryCourtesy in literature.Courts and courtiers in literature.English poetryItalian influences.Political poetry, EnglishHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistory821/.3Wiggins Peter DeSa1717315MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819212603321Donne, Castiglione, and the poetry of courtliness4113433UNINA