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Poets, Patronage, and Print in Sixteenth-Century Portugal - From Paper to Gold (Hardcover)
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Poets, Patronage, and Print in Sixteenth-Century Portugal - From Paper to Gold (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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Portugal was not always the best place for poets in the sixteenth
century. Against the backdrop of an expanding empire, the country's
annexation by Spain in 1580, and ongoing religious controversy,
poets struggled to articulate their worth to rulers and patrons.
This did not prevent them, however, from persisting in their craft.
Indeed, many of their works reflected precisely on the question of
what poetry could do and what, ultimately, its value was. The
answers that poets like Luis de Camoes, Francisco de Sa de Miranda,
Antonio Ferreira, and Diogo Bernardes offered to these questions,
and which are explored in this book, ranged from lofty ideals to
the more practical concerns of making ends meet when one depended
on the whims of the powerful. This volume articulates a 'pragmatics
of poetry' that combines literary analysis and book history with
methods from sociology (network analysis, sociology of professions,
valuation studies) to explore how poets thought about themselves
and negotiated the value of their verse in the court, with patrons,
or in the marketplace for books. It reveals how poets compared
their work to that of lawyers and doctors and tried to set
themselves apart as a special group of professionals. It shows how
they threatened their patrons as well as flattered them and tried
to turn their poetry from a gift into something like a commodity or
service that had to be paid for. While poets set out to write in
the most ambitious genres and to better their European rivals, they
sometimes refused to spend months composing an epic without the
prospect of reward. Their books of verse, when printed, were framed
as linguistic propaganda as well as objects of material and
aesthetic worth at a time when many said that non-devotional poetry
was a sinful waste of time. This is a book about the various ways
in which poets, metaphorically and more literally, tried to turn
poetry and the paper it was written on into gold.
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