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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... death; but unfortunate circumstances meant that I came to need, and have gained, courage from one who could look so steadily upon his own mortality. Having 'lost' six months at the start of the year, much of the book was written up in ...
... death, to relinquish papal to royal law; and this is what the boys were being exhorted to imitate. The language is inescapably martial and nationalistic, although reflecting the inevitable discontinuities in English Catholic nationalism ...
... death Southwell's Roman Catholicism was known to few, and was explicit only in some of his manuscripts, the notoriety of his death ensured that it became public knowledge before the first publication of his poetry. Released and much ...
... death cause as Southwell, clearly had a glamorising and galvanising effect upon contemporary authors and their sense of self-importance, quite beyond any devotional importance. Manuscripts circulating amongst private groups could carry ...
... death (although not in itself necessarily a call to arms). All of these socio-religio-political elements met in Southwell's poetry, but only each individual reader knew which seemed the most significant. It can be seen, then, that ...
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 |