“Philips’s love poetry attempts to articulate a homoerotic subject through the fictions and temporalities of lyric expression, deploying the lyric voice to disrupt those relationships between ideology, causality, and sequence that, in the drama and prose narrative, propel the plot teleologically toward a marital conclusion.” (Traub, 251)

This passage from Traub’s essay really stuck out to me. It makes a very subtle, but strong claim about the power lyric poetry in the Renaissance. Although this course is disabusing me of the notion, I definitely do still fall into the trap of seeing Renaissance poetry/all pre-Modern poetry as  “staid”, more “formulaic”, more literally formal, etc. etc. But here Traub is ascribing lyric poetry the power to break down patterns of ideology and causality that other genres do not quite have — which makes it a rather revolutionary form.