This dissertation argues that Sir Thomas Wyatt’s and Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey’s prison poems can be understood in a myriad of ways: as articulations of deep and abiding political and personal anxieties; as formal (sometimes mimetic) expressions of the suffocating limitations of incarceration; or as self-conscious continuations of prison poems (and of the profound prison tradition) which came before. But most importantly, these poems must be read as political performances, bids at self-representation, performances whose success or failure depended on the courtly audiences that consumed them. Both Wyatt and Surrey mobilized the humanist rhetorical traditions they learned as schoolboys to craft lines designed to garner the attention of...
This practice-led PhD consists of two parts. Part One is the creative element, Alchemy in the Tower...
textThe four poets in this dissertation--Hester Pulter, Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Fr...
This dissertation examines how ideas drawn from early modern poetics were integral to narratives of ...
There has been a growing awareness among scholars of the close and complex relationship between writ...
This study attempts to examine how the two Tudor poets, Thomas Wyatt and Philip Sidney, revised the ...
Fourteenth-century English society bore witness simultaneously to a marked increase of dedicated pri...
Sir Thomas Wyatt's poetry reads less easily than most, and we must either dismiss it or explain it. ...
The court poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42) asserts a special confidence and boldness of the indi...
The court poetry of the 1630s is usually seen as flattering and escapist. However, the ...
Chong Chul, a sixteenth-century Korean poet and courtier, wrote several pieces of long verse in Kore...
This dissertation is a study of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century reactionary discourse...
Les nombreux bouleversements de la culture politique des Tudors durant les années 1530 ont transform...
This dissertation expands the familiar concept of literary history in order to argue for the histori...
219 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.This dissertation argues that...
This dissertation argues for the centrality of a category whose importance has been occluded by mode...
This practice-led PhD consists of two parts. Part One is the creative element, Alchemy in the Tower...
textThe four poets in this dissertation--Hester Pulter, Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Fr...
This dissertation examines how ideas drawn from early modern poetics were integral to narratives of ...
There has been a growing awareness among scholars of the close and complex relationship between writ...
This study attempts to examine how the two Tudor poets, Thomas Wyatt and Philip Sidney, revised the ...
Fourteenth-century English society bore witness simultaneously to a marked increase of dedicated pri...
Sir Thomas Wyatt's poetry reads less easily than most, and we must either dismiss it or explain it. ...
The court poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42) asserts a special confidence and boldness of the indi...
The court poetry of the 1630s is usually seen as flattering and escapist. However, the ...
Chong Chul, a sixteenth-century Korean poet and courtier, wrote several pieces of long verse in Kore...
This dissertation is a study of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century reactionary discourse...
Les nombreux bouleversements de la culture politique des Tudors durant les années 1530 ont transform...
This dissertation expands the familiar concept of literary history in order to argue for the histori...
219 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.This dissertation argues that...
This dissertation argues for the centrality of a category whose importance has been occluded by mode...
This practice-led PhD consists of two parts. Part One is the creative element, Alchemy in the Tower...
textThe four poets in this dissertation--Hester Pulter, Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Hardy, and Robert Fr...
This dissertation examines how ideas drawn from early modern poetics were integral to narratives of ...