The lecture discusses the peacock-display of sonnet manners: the courtship game in which the lady’s cruelty and the poet’s suffering or “dying” are a form of flattery. The example: Samuel Daniel’s “Read in my face a volume of despairs.”
The lecture discusses the peacock-display of sonnet manners: the courtship game in which the lady’s cruelty and the poet’s suffering or “dying” are a form of flattery. The example: Samuel Daniel’s “Read in my face a volume of despairs.”