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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... creative arts and the uses to which they can be put, it is relevant to Southwell's development as a writer. In answering my own question about Jonson's estimation of 'The burning Babe', therefore, it becomes necessary to inquire into ...
... creative literature that empowered the English creative writer and provided a fruitful stylistic, and occasionally spiritual, template for the work of later writers. This was not just a matter of new approaches to rhetoric or ...
... creativity. Jonson praised 'our Shakespeare', but I do not know that he ever wished he had authored any of Shakespeare's poetry. Ironically, Southwell's work might have been fitted into that traditional canon in several ways, and some ...
... creativity; and he was read and appreciated. Later canon-makers may have lost sight of the relative importance of Southwell compared to Sidney or Jonson but his immediate posterity treasured his work: John Bodenham's Belvedere, or the ...
... creativity; its rich physical effects and plangent language engage, as an unfolding drama can engage, even when one knows the outcome. 91 His English characterisations were later to echo that dramatic grandeur and immediacy, although ...
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 |
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