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Posthumous love : eros and the afterlife in Renaissance England /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Targoff, Ramie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Love poetry, English > History and criticism > 16th century.
Love poetry, English > History and criticism > 17th century.
Renaissance > England.
Love in literature.
Immortality in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Burying love
  • Love after death in the Protestant Church
  • Banishing death : Wyatt's Petrarchan poems
  • Dead ends : the Elizabethan Sonnet
  • The Capulet tomb
  • The afterlife of Renaissance sonnets
  • Carpe diem
  • Conclusion. Limit cases : Henry King and John Milton
  • Epilogue : "an Arundel tomb".