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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... Faith, not far from the celebrated medieval shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, which had been reduced to ruins only twenty-three years before his birth. Walsingham was a site of considerable significance to English Christian piety, a ...
... faith. Southwell was later to write some sharp attacks on English Court trimmers, one, perhaps, his own father; and was it with his mother in mind that he directed a few poetic hints towards ladies in positions of influence with the ...
... faith unlawful, 'an inveigled zeale, a blinde, and now abolished faithe; a zeale notwithstanding, and a faithe yt was. And god allmightie is my wittnes I came with no other intention into the realme.' 52 This robust, almost aggressively ...
... faith. In this poem it is possible to detect a direct challenge to the self-reflexive Shakespearean or Danielan sonnet on the immemoriality of poetry; his very language seems to echo and deride them. 'I settled have an unremoved mind ...
... faith gave new space and importance to individual apprehension. The affectivity of those glorious gleams of the early baroque was part of a new room for theological manoeuvre, and Southwell was to take full advantage of its flexibility ...
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 |