poet/fair youth/dark lady OT3!

[angevin2]

I have finished the Sonnets. I am insufferably pleased with myself, as it gives me another thing to cross off the list, though I'll definitely want to look at them again before Thursday as the whole sequence has coalesced in my head as one big self-loathing soup.

Cannot decide if I should go back to Elyot now, read some Sidney, or reread

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[yvesilena]

You know it's bad when Milton is the *least* headache-inducing item on your reading list.. *ducks away from Miltonist best friend*

*lurks behind you and starts giving you a temple massage while you work*

OT3! Big self-loathing soup! I am so glad I friended you :)

And you've reminded me I want to do fanart for that OT3. Or possibly just Fair Boy fanart involving pretentious symbolism with ink and a quill pen. Though when I'll EVER get round to that I do not know.

*shuts up and just hangs around quietly doing soothing things to your head*

[angevin2]

Yay for soothing head things! :D

Sidney actually doesn't give me a headache normally, but probably reading multiple sonnet cycles in one day would. (I actually used to have the last few lines of the opening to Astrophil and Stella up on the wall above my desk, as an exhortation to thesis-writing. Of course, "look in thy heart and write" probably doesn't apply to academics that well, but it's still good stuff.)

[tinyshel]

I'm taking a break from working on an essay on Anna Trapnel (a 17th century prophetess) and found your LJ. Since you mentioned the Sonnets and the Dark Lady, I was wondering if you've read a semi-recent article arguing that Mary Wroth could be the Dark Lady? Stuff like this always makes me a bit nervous, but I have to admit that it is more researched than the claim of Aemilia Lanyer. And as long as you don't take it *too* seriously, it's fun to get caught up in the theories. :)

Good luck with your exams. I haven't been posting much myself because I've been a wreck with deadlines.

[angevin2]

I'd not heard that, though on the face of it it seems rather improbable -- wouldn't she be a bit young?

I've read Anna Trapnel! We did a lot of prophetic-writing-type stuff in the 17th-century women writers course I took last year, though to be honest I don't remember it very well. Good luck on the paper. :)

[tinyshel]

I'm not sure where the article was published, but it's called 'Cerchez la femme: Mary Wroth and Shakespeare's Sonnets' by Jonathan Gibson. If nothing else, it does make for a fun read.

Oooh! I'm happy that you've read Trapnel and have studied 17th century prophetesses! Who are you working with on your dissertation? My supervisor is Elizabeth Clarke (of Perdita Project fame) and she's been both challenging and supportive. I feel so fortunate to be working with her.