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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... discussing a 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 ...
... discussion of his work must be founded on this understanding. Southwell was not an English poet, but one who sometimes chose English as part of his rhetorical arsenal. This would seem sufficient to explain Southwell's later poetic ...
... discussion of that new artistic and literary vision. Strangely, although surrounded by popular and modish Italian baroque poetry in Rome, Southwell was not to repeat the baroque literary style in his shorter English poetry, despite ...
... Magdalen as the tearfully repentant sinner is a central feature of such discussion. Southwell certainly carried an idea of Magdalen with him from Rome to England, and there is, therefore, a tendency to fit Southwell's religious.
... discussion of Southwell's poetry I address the contemporary interests of that moment in the history of literature which has been so taken over by the memory of Shakespeare, and the whole Romantic/Arnoldian vision of individual, inspired ...
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 |