Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape, 1586-95

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Manchester University Press, 2013 M07 19 - 321 páginas
It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwell's poetry offers a curious view of Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspective of a priest-hole. This book dismantles that idea by examining the poetry, word by word, discovering layers of new meanings, hidden emblems, and sharp critiques of Elizabeth's courtiers, and even of the ageing queen herself. Using both the most recent edition of Southwell's poetry and manuscript materials, it addresses both poetry and private writings including letters and diary material to give dramatic context to the radicalisation of a generation of Southwell's countrymen and women, showing how the young Jesuit harnessed both drama and literature to give new poetic poignancy to their experience. Bringing a rigorously forensic approach to Southwell's 'lighter' pieces, Sweeney can now show to what extent Southwell engaged exclusively through them in direct artistic debate with Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare, placing the poetry firmly in the English landscape familiar to Southwell's generation. Those interested in early modern and Elizabethan culture will find much of interest, including new insights into the function of the arts in the private Catholic milieu touched by Southwell in so many ways and places.

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the discernment of angels
38
the inward eie
66
resolving in tears
77
into England
93
songs among swords
105
Englands altered confidence
143
rewriting the English lyric landscape
164
Mapping the new Albion
178
Lazarus in Parnassus
184
Southwells war of words
194
Southwells sacralised poetic
228
Conclusion
269
Bibliography
293
135
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viii
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Anne R. Sweeney teaches English at Lancaster University. Her interests include renaissance art and literature and writing poetry

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