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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... hope this book will be read in that same spirit. As a poet Robert Southwell has much to say to this age, bloodied as it is, and with voices striving to be heard. Many, many thanks to Manchester University Press for undertaking to offer ...
... hope of raising his or her spiritual sensibilities. This new foregrounding of sensual apprehension of the divine allowed a more emotional relationship with God, 48 Southwell developing Tridentine ritualism into a poetically narrated ...
... hope to attract only by seeming more effective or more special; they had perforce to become expert fundraisers, if no more. This alters the authorial imperative upon Southwell: he was primarily there to woo, not to condemn, and this ...
... hope, that lost my hope in feare? What trust to one that trewth it self defyde? What good in him that did his god forsweare? The questioning, which also reflects the 'dialogical reasoning process with the inner self' of the Exercises ...
... hope to dye', the culmination of all these questions (lines 38, 41–2). Similarly, 'I die alive' (p. 52), has the rhetorical-sounding question 'O life what lets thee from a quicke decease? | O death what drawes thee from a present pray ...
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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