Secondary Quotes

Question 1

William Kennedy

Answer 1

“The sonnet’s propensity for expressing self-awareness”

Question 2

Gavin Alexander part 1 (about Sidney)

Answer 2

“The hero of … Astrophil and Stella bears many similarities to his author, and their biographies overlap playfully”

Question 3

Gavin Alexander part 2 (about Sidney)

Answer 3

“But he is not Sidney because this is literature and not life, and he cannot be Sidney because he is also composed of elements drawn from previous sonnet sequences, notably Petrarch’s”

Question 4

Arthur Marotti (about Sidney)

Answer 4

“At the end of the sonnet sequence the lover is left disgraced and exiled in a state that characterises Sidney’s own political frustration and disillusionment”

Question 5

Elizabeth Scott- Baumann (about Hutchinson)

Answer 5

“For Lucy Hutchinson, the literary is the political, and this is manifested particularly acutely in the elegies for her husband. Hutchinson mourns her hopes for a godly republic as she mourns her husband’s death. Both deceased husband and thwarted republic emerge from an elemental and Biblical web of images; light and dark, clouds and sunlight, glory and desolation.”