‘Love with excess of heat’: The Sonnet and Petrarchan Excess in the Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Periods
In the English Renaissance, the Petrarchan lover was the figure of excess par excellence. In poems and plays of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, his excessive desire and grief were expressed through a rhetoric characterised by a systematic resort to set devices and a repeated use of...
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2014-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/395 |