ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes we read the self-division Fulke Greville carefully describes in Cælica’s collection of poems alongside an unusually detailed picture of the beloved’s charms and agency, her capacity for desire aligned with an affinity for language and wish for clarity and freedom. The poet constructs a woman’s heart in terms of her ability to know, her identity derived from how she imagines herself in time, with words, and all alone. It is this estrangement from the Petrarchan project which Greville records in Caelica, something which his speaker also wants his beloved to see.
