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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... later, some funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board and under the inestimably patient eye of Professors Richard Dutton and Alison Findlay and Dr Hilary Hinds at Lancaster University, and, most especially, Professor Peter ...
... later lyrics, where he metaphorises an English courtier's spiritual dereliction as a ruined building.5 Southwell's own church, St Faith's, contains a near-miraculous preservation of religious decoration, a rich medieval parade of ...
... later, 'you were wont in merriment to call me Father Robert.' 8 Southwell's family appears to have maintained Catholic sympathies in private, while struggling to conform to royal wishes and laws in public, a nervous, precarious ...
... later poetic critique of some of his countrymen, an assault which more reverent studies of Southwell prefer not to notice. But even the swiftest vocabulaic trawl through his lyrics produces lexis such as this in the short 'Saint Peters ...
... later responded to the pressures of his mission. Historicist scholarship has tended to argue convincingly that any early tendency towards polemic which he had was modified by actual contact with English Catholics struggling with their ...
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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 |