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The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe: From the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English Cavaliers

The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe: From the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English Cavaliers

Wong, Alex

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature, Book 34

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1843844664
ISBN13: 9781843844662
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Jun 16 2017
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
The kissing-poem genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development.

There is a great deal of kissing in Renaissance poetry, but modern critics do not generally recognise (as early readers did) that the literary conventions of the kiss were closely related to a fully-formed, lively and popular genre of Neo-Latin kissing-poems. Beginning with the imitation of Catullus in fifteenth-century Italy, this specialised form was securely established in the next century by the Dutch poet Janus Secundus, whose elegant Basia (Kisses) were an extraordinary international success. Secundus stimulated a long-lived tradition of Latin and vernacular kisses, willfully repetitious and yet meticulously varied, which can tell us much about humanist poetics.

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