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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... appears on the surface'; his edition, generous as it is to his brother in 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 ...
... appears to have maintained Catholic sympathies in private, while struggling to conform to royal wishes and laws in public, a nervous, precarious existence. Robert's connections included significant Catholic families: another reference ...
... appears to have alarmed his family – they dropped correspondence with him at around this time.28 His family's lay tradition of Christian church going was very different from the new, strongly Iberian order he was vanishing into. Douai ...
... appears with the Father in a great burst of light as the pilgrim, Ignatius, having turned aside from his journey to Rome to visit a rustic chapel and ask guidance, kneels, amazed. Here, surely, is 'The burning Babe' in its first ...
... appear only in the heaviest disguise as medieval diatribes against fickle females such as False Love and Fortuna, as will be discussed later. The only surviving letter of Southwell's from the difficult years just after his ordination in ...
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 |