Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana
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EBOOK ELIZABETHAN SONNET-CYCLES ***
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ELIZABETHAN SONNET-CYCLES
EDITED BY
MARTHA FOOTE CROW
DELIA
BY SAMUEL DANIEL
DIANA
BY HENRY CONSTABLE
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUeBNER AND CO.
PATERNOSTER HOUSE LONDON W.C.
1896
DELIA
BY
SAMUEL DANIEL
SAMUEL DANIEL
Daniel's sonnet series has been by many regarded as the prototype of
Shakespeare's. It is true that several of Daniel's themes are repeated
in the cycle composed by the greater poet. The ideas of immortality in
verse, the transitoriness of beauty, the assurances of truth, the
humility and the woes of the lover, the pain of separation and the
comfort of night thoughts, shape the mood of both poets. But these
motives are also found in the pages of many other sonneteers of the
time. All these devotees seem to have had a storehouse of poetic
conceits which they held in common, and from which each poet had the
right to draw materials to use in his own way. In fact Shakespeare's
sonnets are full of echoes from the voices of Sidney, Constable, Davies,
Lodge, Watson, Drayton and Barnes, as well as from that mellifluous one
of Daniel; and these poetic conceits were tossed forth in the first
place by the Italian sonnet makers, led by Petrarch. It is evident that
Daniel's _Petrarch_ has been well-thumbed.
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