Elizabethan Sonnets: Sidney's Astrophil and Stella

Lecture 6
English 2105 -- British Literature: Beginnings to 1700
Professor Timothy H. Wilson
Department of English, University of Ottawa

A core course in the English Undergraduate Program at the University of Ottawa -- Summer 2020.

The lecture begins with an introduction to the context of Elizabethan sonnet sequences, including discussions of the courtly love tradition, Neo-Platonism, and Petrarchan sonnets.

The lecture concludes with and an analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella.

Time Codes:

0:00 - Introduction
3:48 - Outline of the Lecture
6:21 - Courtly Love
18:36 - Neo-Platonism: Ficino on Plato's "Ladder of Love"
27:24 - Sweet New Style: Petrarch
35:50 - Sonnet Form: Rhythm, Meter and Feet (Iambic Pentameter)
45:42 - Sonnet Form: Rhyme Scheme and Stanza Structure
49:36 - Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella
54:25 - Astrophil and Stella, Close Analysis of Sonnet #2
59:26 - Astrophil and Stella, Close Analysis of Sonnet #5
1:10:18 - Astrophil and Stella, Close Analysis of Sonnet #31
1:22:43 - Astrophil and Stella, Close Analysis of Sonnet #52


Professor Wilson's Web site -- The Western Canon: https://sites.google.com/site/unterge...

ENG 2105 Course Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/unterge...

Lecture Slides (PDF): https://drive.google.com/file/d/17rNs...