EN 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Petrarchan Sonnet, Margery Kempe, Unrequited Love
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Written in hand - hand written copy. Now tends to mean any work created by an original author. A copy in the author"s hand by the self. Had an author who wanted the queen"s patronage. Sidney did not care about patronage because he was wealthy. In the days of sidney, when someone finished their scholarship, the went on the. Would go to get seasoning; receive culture. Paris, rome, the cultural hotspots to pick up ideas. When sidney was finished in oxford, considering himself to be ripened and not receiving a degree, and sent him off on a grand tour. Developed a fascination in the culture of the continent, in politics and religion. His approach to poetry he brought back; impressed by the petrarchan sonnet. He didn"t want to be simply plagiarizing petrarch"s work. Interested in having it seen by other people; circulated in manuscript form. Manuscript was only fragments of autograph copy; not in sidney"s own hand.
