![]() ![]() His Dark Lady and Fair Youth-the addressees of the sonnets-exist undeniably in the same world as Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella and Edmund Spenser’s courtly and pastoral personae, shaped by the same history and giving voice to comparable ideas about love and sex, art and nature, and the battle between our angelic and animal qualities.ĭonne’s poems, by contrast, are from outer space. Like other English writers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Shakespeare works fluidly with formal and emotional vocabularies inherited from the Italian poet Petrarch and his followers. ![]() ![]() This is strangely difficult to remember, for they had contrary relationships to poetic traditions and trends. John Donne was a contemporary of Shakespeare. ![]()
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