Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of Courtliness Peter DeSa Wiggins The influence of The Book of the Courtier on the work of John Donne. John Donne has been described as a "poet of ambition," who used his poems as agents in his quest for preferment among the elites of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. Until now the extent of the influence on Donne's work of that era's most influential court text--Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier-- has never been fully explored. Courtier was Elizabethan England's approved ...
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Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of Courtliness Peter DeSa Wiggins The influence of The Book of the Courtier on the work of John Donne. John Donne has been described as a "poet of ambition," who used his poems as agents in his quest for preferment among the elites of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. Until now the extent of the influence on Donne's work of that era's most influential court text--Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier-- has never been fully explored. Courtier was Elizabethan England's approved repository of the complex social codes that governed the behavior of those desiring advancement at Court. In these revelatory readings of some of Donne's best-known poems, Peter DeSa Wiggins demonstrates that this book fired Donne's imagination and that, in his secular poetry, Donne applies, adapts, and unfolds to its fullest potential the persona of the courtier. In poems such as "The Canonization," "A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day," "Aire and Angels," "The Flea," and "The Exstasie," Donne confronts his elite readers with the most exacting standard of aristocratic conduct while presenting his qualifications for sensitive government posts. By substituting social codes for poetic convention as the formative principle of his art, Donne assumed the voice of a powerful aristocracy, turned it to his advantage, built one political career out of it (which he lost), then built another, and in the process revolutionized his art form. Peter DeSa Wiggins is Professor of English at The College of William and Mary and author of Figures in Ariosto's Tapestry: Character and Design in the Orlando Furioso. Contents Introduction The Satirical Art of the Disabused The Art of Impasse The English Secretary Poets and Lawyers The Future of an Illusion The Looking Glass Aesthetic Play Courtly Art "On his Mistris" Modern Instances Courtly Comedy Sprezzatura or Transcendence: From Travesty to Palinode Travesty A Lesson in Deportment Palinode Discerning Insincerity The Good Courtier The Bad Courtier Sincerity Then and Now Conclusion
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Good. Size: 5x0x8; Signed and Inscribed by author~Good. Good DJ. Hardcover. Light to moderate shelf wear to boards/DJ; satisfaction guaranteed. Association copy: This book is from the collection ofElizabeth Story Donno and Daniel J. Donno. ElizabethDonno was an esteemed Renaissance scholar and alumnaof Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, classof 1944. She received an honorary Doctor of Lettersdegree from Whitman in 1979. In the summer of 2009 hercollection was donated to the Penrose Memorial Library atWhitman and we are slowly making it available for purchase. Proceeds from the sale of Donno's library benefit thePenrose Memorial Library, the local Walla Walla economy, and Earthlight Books, across the street from Whitman. Ifyou are interested in more of her library please contact usdirectly.
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