Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence

Roland Greene

Published by Princeton University Press 1991

Post-Petrarchism

Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence

Roland Greene

Volume 1163 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400861774

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Post-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, originated by Francis Petrarch in his Canzoniere of the late fourteenth century. A framework in which poems are suspended according to some organizing or unifying principle, the lyric sequence emerges from European humanist culture as a poetic discourse that represents personal experience and operates as a kind of fiction. Here Roland Greene proposes that since Petrarch the lyric sequence has survived in European and American literatures--from Shakespeare's Sonnets to The Waste Land to Trilce--as a complex in which formal, generic, and cultural designs intersect, and as an embodiment of lyric discourse at its most extensive, inclusive, and ambitious. Enabled by a theoretical introduction to the genre at large, the book treats the founding and elaboration of the vernacular sequence in six major texts by Petrarch, Philip Sidney, Edward Taylor, Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, Pablo Neruda, and Martin Adan. Throughout Greene shows how Petrarchism has evolved as lyric discourse through its exposure to such events as the Reformation and Puritanism, the settlement of the New World, and the various modernisms of Europe and the Americas.

Originally published in 1991.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
A NOTE ON TEXTS AND PROCEDURES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction. POST-PETRARCHISM: TOWARD A POETICS OF LYRIC AND THE LYRIC SEQUENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 1. FOUNDING FICTION: THE TEMPORALITY OF PETRARCH'S CANZONIERE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Chapter 2. CONSTRUCTING CHARACTER: SIDNEY'S ASTROPHIL AND STELLA AS NOMINATIVE FICTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter 3. TWO RITUAL SEQUENCES: TAYLOR'S PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS AND WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 4. NOMINATIVE TO ARTIFACTUAL: INTERVAL AND INNOVATION IN TWO SEQUENCES BY YEATS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Chapter 5. MEASURING SPACE, BECOMING SPACE: THE SPATIALITY OF NERUDA'S ALTURAS DE MACCHU PICCHU AND ADAN'S LA MANO DESASIDA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
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