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  • Chapter 5 - ‘My Heart … with Love Did Inly Burn’

  • 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 151-188

  • Summary

    This chapter is concerned with Sulpicia’s female-authored elegies, Mary Sidney’s translations of Petrarch’s Triumph of Death, and of Robert Garnier’s Antonie, both texts which make prominent use of a female voice of desire, and Mary Wroth’s first sonnet from her Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. The argument here is not so much that Sulpicia is a model for Sidney and Wroth as an exploration, in each period, of what happens when a female author/narrator inserts herself into a discourse which is primarily gendered masculine. It analyses how previous instances of ventriloquised female voices in male authored elegy and Renaissance love poetry open up a space into which it is possible for a female author to insert herself. Of special interest is the question of what happens when the female beloved speaks up, speaks back, speaks for herself.