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Strategies of Failure in the Early Modern Sonnet: Petrarch, Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, and Wroth

Strategies of Failure in the Early Modern Sonnet: Petrarch, Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, and Wroth

Smith, D. K.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1041059116
ISBN13: 9781041059110
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 12 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book offers an ambitious reassessment of the post-Petrarchan tradition. Elegantly and lucidly written, it examines the uses of failure as a poetic strategy in the Petrarchan sonnet sequence-a strategy that originated with Petrarch and was then imitated and developed in the English Renaissance lyric.

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