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Sto caricando le informazioni... Poetry and Courtliness in Renaissance England (Princeton Legacy Library)di Daniel Javitch
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Model court conduct in the Renaissance shared many rhetorical features with poetry. Analyzing these stylistic affinities, Professor Javitch shows that the rise of the courtly ideal enhanced the status of poetic art. He suggests a new explanation for the fostering of poetic talents by courtly establishments and proposes that the court stimulated these talents more decisively than the Renaissance school. The author focuses on late Tudor England and considers how Queen Elizabeth's court helped poetry gain strength by subscribing to a code of behavior as artificial as that prescribed by Castiglione. Elizabethan writers, however, could benefit from the court's example only so long as their contemporaries continued to respect its social and moral authority. The author shows how the weakening of the courtly ideal led eventually to the poet's emergence as the maker of manners, a role first subtly indicated by Spenser in the Sixth Book of The Faerie Queene.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)821.009Literature English & Old English literatures English poetry English poetry {by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions History, description, critical appraisal of English poetry not limited by time period or kind of formClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (3)
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This felt like a university thesis that had been expanded into book form by the Princeton University Press, however it was an interesting read and it made some good points. Javitch claims that in the 1580’s courtiers to Queen Elizabeth I were very heavily influenced by Baldassare Castiglione’s [The Book of the Courtier] to such an extent that it shaped their behaviour at Court. He relies heavily on George Puttenham’s [The art of English poesie] published in 1589 which claims that the best poetry obscures and retards the disclosure of its meaning. This was stock in trade to being a courtier and it was no surprise that poetry flourished at Queen Elizabeths court. Javitch says that behaviour and prestige at Court tended to override the education in rhetoric that most courtiers would have grown up with at school.
Sprezzatura was the key skill for a Courtier as Identified by Castiglione. It was the supreme skill of being knowledgable, sophisticated, efficient, and charismatic, without appearing to make any effort. These people at the heart of the cultural centre would both practice and appreciate poetry. As George Gascoigne said: “the art of allegory was to conceal certain truths from the base and profane multitude.” Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney are used as example of the poetic art of the period, however there is very few references to anyone else. The 1590’s saw a change in the culture; Elizabeth was coming to the end of her long reign and the war with Spain had left the country short of money. Corruption was beginning to take a stranglehold of the court and people in power found it more difficult to keep to the ideals set out in [The Book of The Courtier].
The final chapter in the book looks for evidence of criticism of the Court in Spenser’s [Faerie Queen] and concludes there is more evidence of this in the final three books that were published. After the turn of the century Courtiers were no longer the teachers of poets but were being taught by them to keep standards high. Javitch claims that the clearest purpose of [The Faerie Queen] was “to fashion a gentlemen or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline. Worth a read, but much of it can be read down the middle. 3 stars. (