Title Donne, Castiglione, and the poetry of courtliness / Peter DeSa Wiggins.

Descript 1 online resource (viii, 174 pages) : illustrations Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-169) and index. Contents The satirical art of the disabused -- The art of impasse -- The English secretary -- Poets and lawyers -- The future of an illusion -- The looking glass -- Aesthetic play -- Courtly art -- "On his Mistris" -- Modern instances -- Courtly comedy -- Sprezzatura or Transcendence: From travesty to palinode -- Travesty -- A lesson in deportment -- Palinode -- Discerning insincerity -- The good courtier -- The bad courtier -- Sincerity then and now. Summary Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of CourtlinessPeter DeSa WigginsThe influence of The Book of the Courtier on the work of John Donne. John Donne has been described as a ""poet of ambition, "" who used his poems as agents in his quest for preferment among the elites of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. Until now the extent of the influence on Donne's work of that era's most influential court text -- Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier -- has never been fully explored. Courtier was El Note English. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Political and social views. Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529. Libro del cortegiano. Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529 -- Influence. Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Knowledge -- Literature. Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529. (OCoLC)fst00017750 Donne, John, 1572-1631. (OCoLC)fst00038120 Libro del cortegiano (Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte) (OCoLC)fst01357502 Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. Political poetry, English -- History and criticism. English poetry -- Italian influences. Courts and courtiers in literature. Courtesy in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare. Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953 Courtesy in literature. (OCoLC)fst00881718 Courts and courtiers in literature. (OCoLC)fst00881835 English poetry -- Italian influences. (OCoLC)fst00912312 Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484 Political and social views. (OCoLC)fst01353986 Political poetry, English. (OCoLC)fst01069540 Politics and literature. (OCoLC)fst01069960 Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623 Gedichten. Hoofsheid. Invloed. 1600-1699 ISBN 0253109485 (electronic bk.) 9780253109484 (electronic bk.) 025333814X (alk. paper) 9780253338143 (alk. paper)