出版社：Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Caen
摘要：Lady Mary Wroth (c.1587-c.1651/53) was probably the most important woman writer of
her time. Daughter of poet Robert Sidney, niece to Philip Sidney and his sister the Countess of
Pembroke, she was notably the author of the first Petrarchan sonnet sequence staging a female
voice written by an Englishwoman, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621). Following Philip
Sidney’s manner in Astrophil and Stella, Mary Wroth’s sequence consists in 103 sonnets and
songs representing the canzoniere addressed by Pamphilia to her lover Amphilanthus. Because
of the considerable influence of her family on the literary production of their time, Mary
Wroth’s works in prose as well as verse have often been compared to those of her father and
aunt, but most of all to those of her uncle. The interplay between their works is vast and
complex. This article aims at studying the play on the names of the protagonists of Pamphilia
to Amphilanthus in relation to Philip Sidney’s and Robert Sidney’s poems, so as to illustrate
the possible intertextual relationships which may be at work between these three poets.
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