The Praeceptor Amoris in English Renaissance Lyric Poetry: One Aspect of the Poet's Voice
Description:
This study focuses on the praeceptor amoris, or teacher of love, as that persona appears in English poetry between 1500 and 1660. Some attention is given to the background, especially Ovid and his Art of Love. A study of the medieval praeceptor indicates that ideas of love took three main courses: a bawdy strain most evident in Goliardic verse and later in the libertine poetry of Donne and the Cavaliers; a short-lived strain of mutual affection important in England principally with Spenser; an…
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Date:
December 1985
Creator:
Clarke, Joseph Kelly
Partner:
UNT Libraries