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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... imagery in terms of personal confession: the language of his Querimonia is founded on the same imagery of being adrift on storm-tossed, wintry seas; we see him lost 'amid the billows of carnal desires, [...] dashed on the reefs of ...
... imagery of his shorter English lyrics is highly visual as a rule, his language clearer of allegory and argument than was usual in Elizabethan poetry, as if his primary intention was to replicate the pictures rather than engage in ...
... imagery may be linked to a particular Jesuit use of it in the Continental colleges, in a college drama about Psyche which theatricalises the dereliction of England; if this undated play was contemporary with Southwell's schooling, then ...
... imagery into poetic imagery has a central place in the 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 ...
... imagery is played with as in a drama, the peripheral characters opposed in their busyness to the dramatic, compelling posture of the Babe and the utter stillness of the narrator, standing outside the vision, yet caught within the ...
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 |