Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual XIV

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 1115
Author(s):  
Matthew Woodcock ◽  
Anne Lake Prescott ◽  
Thomas P. Roche ◽  
William A. Oram
Keyword(s):  
Renaissance Poetry

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

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.

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Robert W. Bernard ◽  
James Hutton ◽  
Rita Guerlac
Keyword(s):  
Renaissance Poetry

Guilty Creatures: Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 890
Author(s):  
William J. Kennedy ◽  
Dennis Kezar
Keyword(s):  
Renaissance Poetry

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

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

1986 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 382
Author(s):  
John M. Steadman ◽  
James Hutton ◽  
Rita Guerlac
Keyword(s):  
Renaissance Poetry

The Rebirth of Poetics

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.

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