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Donne, Castiglione and the Poetry of Courtliness
Donne Castiglione and the Poetry of Courtliness Author:Peter Desa Wiggins Until now the extent of the influence on Donne's work of his era's most influential court text--Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier--has never been fully explored. In these revelatory readings of some of the Donne's best-known poems, Peter DeSa Wiggins demonstrates that Castiglione's book fired Donne's imagination and that, in his secular poe... more »try, Donne applies, adapts, and unfolds to its fullest potential the persona of the courtier.« less