Catullan consciousness and the early modern lyric in England
Subtitle: from Wyatt to Donne
By: Jacob Blevins.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Catullus, Gaius Valerius -- Appreciation -- England.; Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542 -- Knowledge -- Literature.; Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Knowledge -- Literature.; Catullus, Gaius Valerius -- Influence.; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Classicism -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Classicism -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Latin poetry -- Appreciation -- England.; English poetry -- Roman influences.; Consciousness in literature.; Rome -- In literature.
Description: "By comparing Catullus to English lyricists of the 16th and early 17th centuries, Jacob Blevins here identifies a common function of the genre: lyric love poetry, he argues, provides the space in which speakers attempt to situate their self-identity among dominant cultural ideologies and individual desires."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-133) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : visions of an old love; title: Catullus, the early Tudors, and Wyatt's deviation from Petrarch; title: Subverting the ideal(s) in Shakespeare and Catullus; title: Sidney, Spenser, and the epithalamic tradition; title: Catullan oaths and John Donne's fractured subjectivity.