Introduction: Vernacular memories of English Petrarchism -- The measure of meed: symbolic economies in Langland, Wyatt, and Spenser -- Chaucerian melancholy in Renaissance England: Surrey's songes and sonnets and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella -- Sovereign love, medieval and early modern: the arts of marriage in the Casket sonnets and the Kingis quair -- Petrarchan afterlives of erotic legality: love and law in Lydgate, Daniel, and Drayton -- Medieval pathologies of affect: reading Hoccleve and Henryson in Shakespeare's sonnets -- Conclusion: The "English straine" of Renaissance petrarchism: poetry, genealogy, hermeneutics.
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