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S/LI/448. Beauty, desire and ‘faculty of sight' in 16th century love sonnets

WORDS:
1800
DATE:
2010
PRICE:
19.99 GBP

The paper examines the depictions of beauty in the poem by Philip Sidney ‘Astrophil and Stella' discussing its connection with sexual desire and arguing that the faculty of sight cannot fulfil Astrophil's desire excited in his mind by the beauty of Stella.

 

KEYWORDS: Sidney, love sonnets, Astrophil and Stella, beauty, sexual desire,

 
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