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Sonnets ILove Sonnets

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Sonetto: “little song, or sound”

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Francesco Petrach, Rime Sparse 190

Edmund Spenser, Amoretti 67

Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella 52

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francesco petrarca (1304-1394)

“Father of the Renaissance”

Humanism

Wrote in the Tuscan vernacular

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the petrarchan sonnet

Rime Sparse means “scattered rhymes”

Sonnet sequences: series of love poems written by an unfulfilled, melancholy lover to a detached, chaste mistress

The Petrarchan Sonnet adopted by the English

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14 lines divided into two clear parts, an opening octet (8 lines) and a closing sestet (6 lines)

A fixed rhyme scheme (abbaabba cdecde)

Often the octet will pose a problem or paradox which the sestet will resolve.

Volta: turn, or shift in thought that separates the octet from the sestet

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Una candida cerva sopra l’erba verde m’apparve con duo corna d’oro,fra due riviere all’ombra d’un alloro,levando ‘l sole a la stagione acerba. Era sua vista sì dolce superba 5ch’i’ lasciai per seguirla ogni lavoro,come l’avaro che ’n cercar tesorocon diletto l’affano disacerba. “Nessun mi tocchi,” al bel collo d’intornoscritto avea di diamanti et di topazi. 10“Libera farmi al mio Cesare parve.” Et era ’l sol già vòlto al mezzo giorno,gli occhi miei stanchi di mirar, non sazi,quand’ io caddi ne l’acqua et ella sparve.

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Una candida cerva sopra l’erba

octetverde m’apparve con duo corna d’oro,fra due riviere all’ombra d’un alloro,levando ‘l sole a la stagione acerba. Era sua vista sì dolce superba 5ch’i’ lasciai per seguirla ogni lavoro,come l’avaro che ’n cercar tesorocon diletto l’affano disacerba.

“Nessun mi tocchi,” al bel collo d’intorno

sestetscritto avea di diamanti et di topazi. 10“Libera farmi al mio Cesare parve.” Et era ’l sol già vòlto al mezzo giorno,gli occhi miei stanchi di mirar, non sazi,quand’ io caddi ne l’acqua et ella sparve.

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Una candida cerva sopra l’erba a

octet verde m’apparve con duo corna d’oro, bfra due riviere all’ombra d’un alloro, blevando ‘l sole a la stagione acerba. aEra sua vista sì dolce superba a ch’i’ lasciai per seguirla ogni lavoro, bcome l’avaro che ’n cercar tesoro bcon diletto l’affano disacerba. a

“Nessun mi tocchi,” al bel collo d’intorno c

sestet scritto avea di diamanti et di topazi. d “Libera farmi al mio Cesare parve.” eEt era ’l sol già vòlto al mezzo giorno, cgli occhi miei stanchi di mirar, non sazi, dquand’ io caddi ne l’acqua et ella sparve. e

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edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Wrote criticism, The Faerie Queene

1594 m. Elizabeth Boyle, 2nd wife

Amoretti—sequence of 89 sonnets about his courtship and marriage

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amoretti 67

Beloved as hind; lover as hunter

Transforms the Petrarchan sequence of longing and losing

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structure

Increases the number of different rhymes to five: abab bcbc cdcd ee

Three couplet-like rhymes: bb, cc, ee

Because of the more complicated rhyme scheme, the placement of the turn varies

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Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace,

Seeing the game from him escapt away,

Sits downe to rest him in some shady place,

With panting hounds beguilèd of their pray;

So after long pursuit and vaine assay,

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When I all weary had the chace forsooke,

The gentle deare returnd the selfe-same way,

Thinking to quench her thirst at the next brook.

There she beholding me with mylder looke,

Sought not to fly, but fearelesse still did bide:

10

Till I in hand her yet halfe trembling tooke,

And with her owne goodwill hir fyrmly tyde.

Strange thing me seemed to see a beast so wyld,

So goodly wonne with her owne will beguyld.

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Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace,

a

Seeing the game from him escapt away,

b

Sits downe to rest him in some shady place,

a

With panting hounds beguilèd of their pray;

b

So after long pursuit and vaine assay,

5 b

When I all weary had the chace forsooke,

c

The gentle deare returnd the selfe-same way,

b

Thinking to quench her thirst at the next brook.

c

There she beholding me with mylder looke,

c

Sought not to fly, but fearelesse still did bide:

10 d

Till I in hand her yet halfe trembling tooke,

c

And with her owne goodwill hir fyrmly tyde.

d

Strange thing me seemed to see a beast so wyld,

e

So goodly wonne with her owne will beguyld.

e

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Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace,

a

Seeing the game from him escapt away,

b Sits downe to rest him in some shady place,

a

With panting hounds beguilèd of their pray;

b

So after long pursuit and vaine assay,

5 b

When I all weary had the chace forsooke,

c

The gentle deare returnd the selfe-same way,

b

Thinking to quench her thirst at the next brook.

c

There she beholding me with mylder looke,

c

Sought not to fly, but fearelesse still did bide:

10 d

Till I in hand her yet halfe trembling tooke,

c

And with her owne goodwill hir fyrmly tyde.

d

Strange thing me seemed to see a beast so wyld,

e

So goodly wonne with her owne will beguyld.

e

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Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Knight, soldier, coterie poet, patron

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astrophil and stella

Astrophil and Stella—sequence of 108 sonnets and 11 songs

Penelope Devereux thought to be Stella

Exploration of the lover's soul using well-established conventions but transforming them

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astrophil and stella 52

Conceit of Love and Virtue arguing about Stella's allegiance

Virtue concedes that she wears Love's device, but Virtue owns her self

Martial imagery; legal language

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A strife is grown between Virtue and Love,

While each pretends that Stella must be his:

Her eyes, her lips, her all, saith Love, do this,

Since they do wear his badge, most firmly prove.

But Virtue thus that title doth disprove:

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That Stella (O dear name) that Stella is

That virtuous soul, sure heir of heavenly bliss;

Not this fair outside, which our hearts doth move.

And therefore, though her beauty and her grace

Be Love's indeed, in Stella's self he may

10

By no pretense claim any manner place.

Well, Love, since this demur our suit doth stay,

Let Virtue have that Stella's self; yet thus,

That Virtue but that body grant to us.