Posthumous Love : Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England /

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven-Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch with Laura. But as Ramie Targoff reveals in this elegant study, English love poetry of the Renaissan...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Targoff, Ramie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Subjects:
1500-1699
Love poetry, English > History and criticism > 16th century.
Love poetry, English > History and criticism > 17th century.
Renaissance > England.
Love in literature.
Immortality in literature.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
Amour dans la littérature.
Immortalité dans la littérature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Immortality in literature
Love in literature
Love poetry, English
Renaissance
Lyrik
Jenseits > Motiv
Liebe > Motiv
Englisch
Unsterblichkeit > Motiv
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Burying Love; 1. Love after Death in the Protestant Church; 2. Banishing Death: Wyatt's Petrarchan Poems; 3. Dead Ends: The Elizabethan Sonnet; 4. The Capulet Tomb; 5. The Afterlife of Renaissance Sonnets; 6. Carpe Diem; Conclusion. Limit Cases: Henry King and John Milton; Epilogue: "An Arundel Tomb"; Notes; Index.

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