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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wiggins, Peter DeSa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.