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Chapter 3 - ‘“Fool,” Said My Muse to Me’

Reading Metapoetics in Propertius 2.1 and 4.7, and Astrophil and Stella 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2019

Linda Grant
Linda Grant
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London
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This chapter turns to Propertius and Philip Sidney and, taking its cue from from Cynthia as the eroticised muse of Propertian poetry, and the scornful muse of Astrophil and Stella 1, explores metaliterary themes of poetic practice. Reading the muse as a figure for ideas of inspiration and creativity, for authority and canonicity, we consider how the selected texts negotiate, articulate and configure ideas about the nature, identity and cultural function of poetry in Augustan Rome and Elizabethan England.

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PropertiusPhilip SidneyCynthiaAstrophil and Stellamusemetaliterarypoetic practiceinspirationcanonscultural function of poetry
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Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry
Lascivious Poets
 , pp. 92 - 121
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • ‘“Fool,” Said My Muse to Me’
  • Linda Grant, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book: Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry
  • Online publication: 19 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108663847.004
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  • ‘“Fool,” Said My Muse to Me’
  • Linda Grant, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book: Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry
  • Online publication: 19 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108663847.004
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  • ‘“Fool,” Said My Muse to Me’
  • Linda Grant, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book: Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry
  • Online publication: 19 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108663847.004
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