…Blessed with poetic talent himself, his sonnet collection Astrophel and Stella (1580-84, published in 1591), which sings of Astrophel's (meaning "lover of stars") unrequited love for a woman named Stella (meaning "star"), sparked a huge boom in Petrarchan love sonnets in England. His prose work Arcadia (1590), a love story about two princes who are cast away to the pastoral land of Arcadia, is an important work of Renaissance pastoral literature. Furthermore, his A Defence of Poetry (1595), which responded to the Puritan attacks on literature in general, discussed the utility and essence of poetry and became the starting point of English critical literature. … *Some of the terminology that refers to "Arcadia" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…彼自身も詩才にめぐまれ,ステラ(〈星〉の意)なる仮名の女性に対する,アストロフェル(〈星を愛する者〉の意)のとどかぬ思慕を歌ったソネット集《アストロフェルとステラ》(1580‐84作,91刊)は,イギリスにおけるペトラルカ風恋愛ソネット大流行の口火を切った。散文としては,牧歌郷アルカディアに流れついた2人の王子の恋物語《アーケーディア》(1590)があり,ルネサンス牧歌文学(パストラル)の重要な作品。さらには文芸全般に対するピューリタン側からの非難攻撃にこたえた《詩の弁護》(1595)は,詩の効用や本質を論じて,イギリス批評文学の出発点となった。… ※「《アーケーディア》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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