1st Edition
The Impotency Poem from Ancient Latin to Restoration English Literature
By Hannah Lavery
Copyright 2014
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impotency poem as a recognisable form of poetry in the longer tradition of erotic elegy. Hannah Lavery’s central claim is that the impotency motif is adopted by poets in recognition of its potential to signify satirically through its use as symbol and... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Impotence in the Works of Catullus and Horace; Chapter 2 The Impotency Verse of Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid; Chapter 3 The Impotence Motif after Ovid: Petronius (c. 27–66 CE); Chapter 4 Early French and English Renaissance Impotency Verse: Belleau and Marlowe; Chapter 5 Thomas Nashe’s ‘The Choise of Valentines’ (c. 1592); Chapter 6 From Civil War to Restoration; Chapter 7 Disappointment and Imperfect Enjoyment in the Restored Court; Chapter 8 The Anonymous Imperfect Enjoyment Poems; Chapter 9 William Wycherley’s Social Satire in Impotency Verse; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
Hannah Lavery is Lecturer in English and Staff Tutor at The Open University, UK.
