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The thesis aims to explore the motif of Eros in relation to the concept of death in English Renaissance poetry. Focusing predominantly on literature, namely the sonnet tradition, but also on period corresponding visual art, the paper attempt to map the systematic transformations of the imagery and conceptual associations of Eros and Thanatos. It traces the changes and transformations firstly throughout the Greco-Roman Antiquity, exploring the works of Hesiod, Sappho and Ovid, then from antiquity to the Renaissance, focusing on Cavalcantis' and Petrarch's poetry and ultimately turning to the Elizabethan era, analysing the sonnets of Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton and Samuel Daniel |
