Tomáš Jajtner
"The True Forme of Love”
Číslo: 1/2016
Periodikum: Prague Journal of English Studies
Klíčová slova: Renaissance English literature; Lady Mary Wroth; Petrarchanism; concept of love; women’s poetry
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Anotace:
e following article deals with the transformation of the Petrachan idea of love in the
work of Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1631), the fi rst woman poet to write a secular sonnet
sequence in English literature, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. e author of the article
discusses the literary and historical context of the work, the position of female poets in
early modern England and then focuses on the main diff erences in Wroth’s treatment
of the topic of heterosexual love: the reversal of gender roles, i.e., the woman being the
“active” speaker of the sonnets; the de-objectifying of the lover and the perspective of
love understood not as a possessive power struggle, but as an experience of togetherness,
based on the gradual interpenetration of two equal partners.
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work of Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1631), the fi rst woman poet to write a secular sonnet
sequence in English literature, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. e author of the article
discusses the literary and historical context of the work, the position of female poets in
early modern England and then focuses on the main diff erences in Wroth’s treatment
of the topic of heterosexual love: the reversal of gender roles, i.e., the woman being the
“active” speaker of the sonnets; the de-objectifying of the lover and the perspective of
love understood not as a possessive power struggle, but as an experience of togetherness,
based on the gradual interpenetration of two equal partners.