I don't know of any article specifically on Amoretti 10. Does
anybody? A.P.
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Yngve [iso-8859-1] Nordgård wrote:
> Dear Anne Prescott,
>
> thank you very much for your reference to your article on the deer sonnet.
> You wouldn't happen to know if there exists an article (in Spenser studies
> or elsewhere) on Amoretti 10, which I am also writing about? I am
> especially interested in the judicial/nomological aspect of it ("what law
> is this"), which I connect to the law-bound activity of imitation.
>
> Yours,
>
>
> At 17:32 07.02.2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >A nice sonnet. I think myself, despite Reed Dasenbroek's PMLA essay (also
> >in his book on Petrarchism and England), that the best parallel between
> >Spenser's deer poem and any other is with a poem by Marguerite de
> >Navarre. See my essay on Spenser's deer poem in Spenser Studies vol. 6,
> >which has some references to earlier work (there's a condensed version in
> >the Norton Spenser, but it's of less use). One of those references, and a
> >woman with better neurons above the eyebrows would remember it--I don't
> >have a copy of my own essay with me--is to a whole volume on Spenser's
> >sources, especially Tasso, by somebody I remember as Kostic; the book was,
> >as I recall, published in eastern Europe. Anyway, his book is good on
> >Tasso and Spenser. Dasenbroek may give a translation of the sonnet in
> >question. But intellectually Marguerite's is closer. Hers, together with a
> >religious lyric by St. John of the Cross, is the only other poem I can
> >find in which the deer comes to you after you give up. And Marguerite also
> >has the wearied hunter resting near water. I like the poem because
> >although about Christ and not a girl it makes a similar point: working and
> >forcing don't have as much effect as letting love come to you. Neither God
> >nor young ladies like to be bullied or hectored. Marguerite's own point is
> >a pretty risky quasi-"Lutheran" denial of good works as a way to
> >Christ. To be sure, in spite of my own conviction that Spenser had read
> >the very popular Marguerite, he also knew Tasso well. Anne Prescott.
>
>
> --
> Yngve Nordgaard, graduate student of comparative literature
> University of Oslo, Norway
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