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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... saint from outside the boundaries of religious studies, I was on the thinnest of ice. I hope it is evident that I am addressing discoursal and literary issues only; St Robert Southwell is beyond all comment spiritually, but as a poet ...
... saints and bishops. Eight of the eleven on the choir screens are female, and St Bridget of Sweden, shown at her desk busily writing down her vision of Christ, could be an exemplar for Southwell's mother Bridget (Copley), an educated ...
... Saint Peters Complaynte' (p. 29), where he describes a 'pastor' who is 'craven', full of 'Untrewth', 'pride' and 'servile feare'; a 'disloyall wretch', 20 who 'could with cursinge othes forsweare [his] kinge' (lines 9–10,
... saints of his home church. Such realism allowed a new engagement, opening up a private space to be filled by the observer with his or her personal response to the affective scene. But the idea carries through into Southwell's shorter ...
... Saint Peters Complaint' is constructed along more typically baroque rhetorical lines, his short English lyrics are, for the most part, designed to engage the reader through a combination of limpid 'visual' imagery (most sumptuous in his ...
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 |