Elizabethan Sonnets: Sidney's Astrophil and Stella

Lecture 6
English 2105 -- British Literature: Beginnings to 1700
Professor Timothy H. Wilson
Department of English, University of Ottawa
A core course in the English Undergraduate Program at the University of Ottawa -- Summer 2020.
The lecture begins with an introduction to the context of Elizabethan sonnet sequences, including discussions of the courtly love tradition, Neo-Platonism, and Petrarchan sonnets.
The lecture concludes with and an analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella.
Time Codes:
0:00 - Introduction
3:48 - Outline of the Lecture
6:21 - Courtly Love
18:36 - Neo-Platonism: Ficino on Plato's "Ladder of Love"
27:24 - Sweet New Style: Petrarch
35:50 - Sonnet Form: Rhythm, Meter and Feet (Iambic Pentameter)
45:42 - Sonnet Form: Rhyme Scheme and Stanza Structure
49:36 - Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella
54:25 - Astrophil and Stella, Close Analysis of Sonnet #2
59:26 - Astrophil and Stella, Close Analysis of Sonnet #5
1:10:18 - Astrophil and Stella, Close Analysis of Sonnet #31
1:22:43 - Astrophil and Stella, Close Analysis of Sonnet #52
Professor Wilson's Web site -- The Western Canon: sites.google.com/site/unterge...
ENG 2105 Course Web Site: sites.google.com/site/unterge...
Lecture Slides (PDF): drive.google.com/file/d/17rNs...

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I'm afraid I don't have one recorded. I recommend the following short summary: blogs.hanover.edu/astrophil/2012/10/19/astrophil-and-stella-sonnet-7/
Also, to note, is the central crux of the question of the sonnet is the paradox of beauty arising in what hitherto has not been considered beautiful (dark eyes or features). This trope is extended further in the "Dark Lady" sonnets of Shakespeare.

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