Breaking the Vacuum : Ricardian and Henrician Ovidianism
- Author / Editor
- Simpson, James.
Breaking the Vacuum : Ricardian and Henrician Ovidianism
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29: 325-55, 1999.
- Description
- Literary and historical periodization conventionally depends on viewing the lyrics of Wyatt and Surrey (for example) as distinctive and innovative, expressing a characteristically "Renaissance" divided self that is isolated from political and social realities. However, this self-fashioning is less a feature of Petrarchan humanism than of the Ovidian elegiac mode, as evidenced by late-medieval writings such as Pity, BD, and especially Gower's Confessio Amantis.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Complaint unto Pity.