Guilty Creatures: Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

William J. Kennedy; Dennis Kezar

doi:10.2307/20061602

Making the Slave Anew: History and the Archive in New Negro Renaissance Poetry

A History of the Harlem Renaissance ◽

10.1017/9781108656313.003 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 38-54

Author(s):

Clare Corbould

Keyword(s):

New Negro ◽

Renaissance Poetry ◽

New Negro Renaissance

A Classical Source for Petrarch’s Conceit of the Binding Knot of Hair: Apuleius’s Metamorphoses

International Journal of the Classical Tradition ◽

10.1007/s12138-021-00603-5 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Camilla Caporicci

Keyword(s):

Classical Source ◽

Renaissance Poetry ◽

Vernacular Poetry ◽

Love Lyric

AbstractThe conceit of the beloved’s hair ensnaring and binding the poet’s heart and soul is common in Renaissance poetry and particularly widespread in the tradition of Petrarchan love lyric. The topos can be traced back to Petrarch’s canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, in which Laura’s golden hair is often described in terms of knots and laces tying both the poet’s heart and soul. No classical antecedent has previously been identified for the image. In this study, I propose a possible classical source for the characteristic Petrarchan motif of Laura’s binding hair knot: Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, a manuscript of which the poet owned and which he read and annotated several times. In particular, I show how passages such as Lucius’s celebration of the beauty of women’s hair (Metamorphoses, II.8–9), and especially his declaration of love to Photis, an oath he takes on ʻthat sweet knot of your hair with which you have bound my spiritʼ (ibid., III.23), can be convincingly regarded as a source for Petrarch’s conceit. In addition to the value inherent in the detection of a new source for an influential Petrarchan topos, the present study may have some further implications. It could offer novel arguments for the dating of a series of Petrarchan poems, and it could foster a potentially fruitful reappraisal of the influence of Apuleius’s work on Petrarch’s vernacular poetry.

Essays on Renaissance Poetry.

Sixteenth Century Journal ◽

10.2307/2540015 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 116

Author(s):

Robert W. Bernard ◽

James Hutton ◽

Rita Guerlac

Keyword(s):

Renaissance Poetry

Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual XIV

Sixteenth Century Journal ◽

10.2307/3648996 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 1115

Author(s):

Matthew Woodcock ◽

Anne Lake Prescott ◽

Thomas P. Roche ◽

William A. Oram

Keyword(s):

Renaissance Poetry

Analysing Italian Renaissance Poetry: the Oxford Text Searching System

Literary and Linguistic Computing ◽

10.1093/llc/5.4.310 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 310-313

Author(s):

D. ROBEY

Keyword(s):

Italian Renaissance ◽

Renaissance Poetry ◽

Text Searching

Renaissance poetry

The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature ◽

10.1017/chol9780521806183.011 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 159-177

Author(s):

Julian Weiss

Keyword(s):

Renaissance Poetry

Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poets: Studies in Renaissance Poetry and Poetics

Renaissance and Reformation ◽

10.33137/rr.v36i3.8638 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 75-78

Author(s):

Marijke Spies (book author) ◽

Michael Randall (review author)

Keyword(s):

Poetry And Poetics ◽

Renaissance Poetry

Themes of Peace in Renaissance Poetry

Comparative Literature ◽

10.2307/1770406 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 382

Author(s):

John M. Steadman ◽

James Hutton ◽

Rita Guerlac

Keyword(s):

Renaissance Poetry

Sowerby, R., The Classical Legacy in Renaissance Poetry. Pp. ix + 415 (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library). London and New York: Longman, 1994. Hardbound £39.00; paperbound £16.99

Notes and Queries ◽

10.1093/notesj/42.4.478 ◽

1995 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Renaissance Poetry

The Rebirth of Poetics

The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature ◽

10.5422/fordham/9780823273355.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Andrew Hui

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Close Reading ◽

The Past ◽

Renaissance Poetry ◽

Temporal And Spatial ◽

Renaissance Poetics

This chapter traces the genealogy of the immortality of poetry topos from antiquity to the sixteenth century. It argues that the Renaissance poetics of ruins’s yearning for timelessness is accomplished through the strategy of a temporal multiplicity, a process that transmutes the past and in turn open its own transformation, from author to author, reader to reader. In other words, Renaissance poetry, implicitly or explicitly, hopes to transcend its temporal and spatial horizons (aspiring to be a monument), yet finds its survival in the immanent world, by being recycled, cited, and transformed by successors (living as a ruin). This tension—to be within or without time—drives much of the discourse surrounding ruins. Architectural destruction always compels poets to create works that rise above the sublunary world, while at the same time it inevitably leads them back into the thickets of exchange and mediation. The chapter ends with close-reading of several sonnets of Shakespeare.