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Catullan consciousness and the early modern lyric in England : from Wyatt to Donne /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blevins, Jacob, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
Subjects:
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Catullus, Gaius Valerius > Appreciation > England.
Wyatt, Thomas, > Sir, > 1503?-1542 > Knowledge > Literature.
Donne, John, > 1572-1631 > Knowledge > Literature.
Latin poetry > Appreciation > England.
Catullus, Gaius Valerius > Influence.
English poetry > Roman influences.
Consciousness in literature.
Classicism > England.
Rome > In literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : visions of an old love
  • Catullus, the early Tudors, and Wyatt's deviation from Petrarch
  • Subverting the ideal(s) in Shakespeare and Catullus
  • Sidney, Spenser, and the epithalamic tradition
  • Catullan oaths and John Donne's fractured subjectivity.