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- Title
Love Melancholy and Creative Inspiration in Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus.
- Authors
BULLARD, ANGELA
- Abstract
In her sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Lady Mary Wroth appropriates a genial melancholic temperament, resisting the self-destructive form of love melancholy normally attributed to women. This form of genial melancholy, principally ascribed to men, was thought to be necessary for creative inspiration. In the beginning of the sequence, Wroth's persona Pamphilia wanders through the garden lamenting the perturbations symptomatic of love melancholy before the corona. Yet Pamphilia is able to manage these emotional disruptions through her exchange with the garden labyrinth in "A Crowne of Sonnets Dedicated to Love." This interaction with the labyrinth allows her to attain the inspiration needed to produce her art and affirm her genial melancholic temperament.
- Subjects
PAMPHILIA to Amphilanthus (Poem : Wroth); WROTH, Mary, Lady, ca. 1586-1640; MELANCHOLY; EMOTIONS; MENTAL depression; LOVESICKNESS
- Publication
Sidney Journal, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 2, p81
- ISSN
1480-0926
- Publication type
Article