“The True Forme of Love”: Transforming the Petrarchan Tradition in the Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth (1587–1631)
The following article deals with the transformation of the Petrachan idea of love in the work of Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1631), the first woman poet to write a secular sonnet sequence in English literature, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. The author of the article discusses the literary and historical cont...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2016-07-01
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Series: | Prague Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2016-0001 |