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- Title
"From Despaire to New Election": Predestination and Astrological Determinism in Fulke Greville's Caelica.
- Authors
SHUFRAN, LAUREN
- Abstract
This article claims that the lover of Fulke Greville's Caelica attends to "election" as a simultaneously theological and astrological term. As such, Greville's "amatory" collection points to a pressing astrological debate of his time: whether God's will and God's will for the individual, including his soteriological status-could be discerned in the stars. I offer that Greville's lover initially serves as a figure for the penitent who "climbs into the heavens" for signs of his election, as theologians perpetually cautioned against doing. (So, too, did Greville's best friend Sidney, who wrote that "when by the ballance of experience it was found, that the Astronomer looking to the stars might fall in a ditch," it became clear that astronomy was nothing more than a "serving science" whose end was "the knowledge of a mans selfe"). It is not until the second half of the sequence, when the upward-looking lover becomes the inward-looking penitent, that self-knowledge and "signs" of his salvation-becomes available.
- Subjects
CAELICA (Poem : Greville); GREVILLE, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628; PREDESTINATION; DETERMINISM (Philosophy); ASTRONOMY
- Publication
Sidney Journal, 2017, Vol 35, Issue 1/2, p165
- ISSN
1480-0926
- Publication type
Article