Melancholic Excess and Poetic Measure in Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
Mary Wroth’s sonnet sequence, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) evokes the persona’s love melancholy as she is faced with her lover’s inconstancy. Pamphilia writes to herself rather than to her lover, trying to find some poetic measure that would contain her melancholy – a disease which was defined b...
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2014-12-01
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| Series: | XVII-XVIII |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/397 |