The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe: From the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English Cavaliers
(Part of the Studies in Renaissance Literature Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1843844664
ISBN13:9781843844662
Release Date:June 2017
Publisher:Boydell & Brewer
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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