Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: redrawing the English lyric landscape, 1586–95Manchester University Press, 2013 M07 19 - 328 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. |
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... . (from Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, translated and introduction by Leo Sherley-Price (Harmondsworth; Penguin, 1952, repr. 1979), p. 71) Contents Preface and acknowledgements Introduction Ben Jonson's Admiration for ...
... Christ's sleeping friends: Magdalen and the passionate imagination A golden distraction: metaphorising the Real Hamartolos: redirecting love A new voice: the femaled soul The English Bethany 5 Snow in Arcadia: rewriting the English ...
... Christ, does not elaborate upon his estimation of Southwell's poetry. 3 There have been some fine commentaries on Robert Southwell's life and work, but none of them has explained to my satisfaction why a man like Jonson would have ...
... Christ, but with Christ Crucified. These two, the poem and the painting, exemplify the relationship between Southwell's poetic vision and the works he encountered in Rome. In reproducing that visual immediacy, he was revolutionising the ...
... Christ.72 It is each individual reader's memory store that supplies contexts and personal meaning; the occlusions in Southwell's poetry, as in the hidden classical referents, such as Psyche, can be seen to appeal to and interrogate the ...
Contenido
the inward eie | |
into England | |
Englands altered confidence | |
rewriting the English lyric landscape | |
Southwells war of words | |
Southwells sacralised poetic | |
Conclusion | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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