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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... Elizabethan style, and blessedly short, a silly sentimental thing that manages, apparently on these merits, to make its way into most anthologies of the English poetic canon. It came as something of a shock to me as an undergraduate to ...
... Elizabethan poetry, as if his primary intention was to replicate the pictures rather than engage in rhetoric about texts or subject matter. Southwell's English poetic diction, too, is remarkably succinct, his metaphors used largely with ...
... Elizabethan situation through an imaginary sequel to the Psyche story in which an older Psyche and her sons negotiate worldly evils. In the interrelationship between play, poem, and readership, one has the beginnings of an argument ...
... Elizabethan poetry had hidden meanings, available to a select coterie, under wider meanings available to the generality; nor do I make the mistake of seeing secret 'codes' in every emblem or allegory, which were far too widely and ...
... Elizabethan England, and Southwell's life was entirely bound up in that deadly tangle. The Jesuits were foot-soldiers for the Pope, but in England they were primarily concerned with those who were slipping away from religious observance ...
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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Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape ... Anne R. Sweeney Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Robert Southwell: Snow in Arcadia: Redrawing the English Lyric Landscape ... Anne R. Sweeney Sin vista previa disponible - 2011 |