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The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe - From the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English Cavaliers (Hardcover)
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The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe - From the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English Cavaliers (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
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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. This book offers a critical account of the
Renaissance kiss-poem, using an abundance of vivid and often racy
examples, many of them drawn from authors who are all but forgotten
today. It shows that the genre had a sophisticated rationale and
clear but flexible conventions. These include habits of irony, mood
and structure that proved widely influential, and some slippery,
self-conscious ways of dealing with masculine sexuality. Presenting
new readings of English writers including Sidney, Shakespeare and
Donne, the study also reminds us how important Neo-Latin writing
was to the literary culture of early modern Britain. A number of
well known texts are thus placed in a context unfamiliar to most
modern scholars, in order to show how deftly their kisses engage
with an international tradition of humanist poetry. Alex Wong is
currently a Research Fellow in English literature at St John's
College, University of Cambridge.
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