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Article: Speaking Grief in English Literary Culture: Shakespeare to Milton.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2004
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Margo Swiss and David A. Kent, eds. Speaking Grief in English Literary Culture: Shakespeare to Milton.
Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2002. x + 365 pp. index. $60. ISBN: 0-8207-0330-3.
Sir Philip Sidney was by no means alone in seeking "fit words to paint the blackest face of woe." Grief was a ubiquitous poetic and dramatic topic in the English Renaissance, meriting scrutiny not only as a subjective experience, but also in its forms of expression, especially as these were influenced by the gender of the aggrieved. Margo Swiss and David A. Kent have compiled a group of twelve essays (originating in the 1997 MLA panel on "Grief Expression in ...