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Excerpt from Relations of the Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences to Earlier English Verse, Especially That of Chaucer Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment, of the Requirements for the Degree
The general character of the resemblances between the sonnets and Middle English verse may be gathered from the following list of representative parallelisms and analogues. 1 (i) Descriptions of beauty, in the sonnets, beara general resemblance to those found in the earlier poetry. (42) Thus Gower writes.
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Excerpt from Relations of the Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences to Earlier English Verse, Especially That of Chaucer Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment, of the Requirements for the Degree
Wyatt's use of the sonnet in English is commonly regarded as an innovation. So far as form is concerned, this view is, doubtless, correct; but it should be remembered (a) that Wyatt's experiments do not mark the first contact of English with continental literature and (b) that the subject matter of the amatory sonnet was not altogether strange to English readers. For French and Italian influence we must go back at least to the time of Chaucer, who, indeed, so far anticipated Wyatt as to incorporate a translation of one of Petrarch's sonnets in his Troilus and Criseyde, though he did not give his version the sonnet shape. In figure and allusion the Elizabethan sonnet bears a resemblance, often striking, to the amatory verse current in Middle English. The Romaunt of the Rose, the works of Chaucer, Gower's Confessio Amantis, certain poems of Lydgate and the numerous Middle English "complaints" and lovers' dreams abound in, so-called, sonnet conceits. Chaucer's Emily fairer than a lily, fresher than May, with her rose-like cheeks, yellow hair and voice like that of an angel is the prototype of the sonnet mistress. In a certain "Compleynt" the forlorn lover describes himself "as ashes dead, pale of hue," he suffers "an inward smart," his "fire is hot in every vein," the image of his lady is printed deep in his heart and he vows to serve her unendingly, even though "her heart is hard like stone."
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