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Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of Courtliness.
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 the era's most influential text - Castiglione's T...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 the era's most influential text - Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier - has never been fully explored. Courtier was Elizabethan England's approved repository of the complex social codes that governed the behavior of those desiring advancement at Court. In these revelatory readings of some of Donne's best-known poems, Peter DeSa Wiggins demonstrates that this book f. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (186 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780253109484 0253109485 |