Sonnets Over Ages I：Self consciousness in English Sonnets from the Renaissance to the 18th Century (소네트(sonnet)의 시대적 변주 I： 르네상스 이후 18세기까지 영국 소네트에 나타난 시인들의 자의식)

Lee Miseon (이미선)

Sonnets Over Ages I：Self consciousness in English Sonnets from the Renaissance to the 18th Century

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2014, 35(), pp.115-135
Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
Published : October 31, 2014

Lee Miseon ¹

¹경남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper is to survey the birth and development of English sonnets from the Renaissance to the18th century in the light of the poets’ self consciousness. Sonnets, which displayed the characteristicsof literary humanism in the Renaissance period, developed from Francesco Petrarch’s love poems into one of the major type of English poetry. Sonnets gave many English poets an opportunity to revealtheir self consciousness in the course of writing their sonnets, such as the English translators ofPetrarch s sonnets, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare. Among them,Shakespeare tried to endow his sonnets with his poetic ideal, the immortality of poetry. In the 17thcentury, two major English poets, John Donne and John Milton, wrote down their experiencesduring the political and religious revolution, in which their introspective self consciousness grewstronger and stronger. The religious sonnets of Donne and some works Milton also the characteristicsof self consciousness as a poet. In spite of the limited and brief space of sonnets, most of the poetswillingly adopted the form to ask themselves what kind of poems they should or do want to write. That is why the outdated conventions of sonnets have a long life through the history of Englishpoetry.

KEYWORDS

sonnets, self consciousness, the Renaissance, Petrarch, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton

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