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  • Chapter 2 - ‘For Truth and Faith in Her Is Laid Apart’

  • Linda Grant, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Book:
    Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry
    Published online:
    19 August 2019
    Print publication:
    29 August 2019, pp 63-91

  • Summary

    This chapter concentrates on how the concerns of Catullus’ texts inform the erotic and cultural dynamics of Wyatt’s love poetry. Focusing on gendered images of speech – the impotent or unreliable tongue, verbal duplicity, broken oaths and overt lies – it examines how issues of speaking are turned into ethical markers which can be mapped onto the spectrum of gender. Contextualising the poetry from the two periods against, respectively, one of Cicero’s forensic speeches, and Henry VIII’s love letters, it investigates how modes of speaking are used to contest and uphold the idea of masculinity as a moral state, not just a gender position: what it might mean to ’speak like a man’ in Republican Rome and Henrician England.